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| Fig. 1 Highest sea level areas |
I. Background
The previous post on Dredd Blog focused on, among other things, a clueless article in the Monkey Business Insider (The Warming Science Commentariat - 10, Section III).
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| Fig. 2 Relative sea levels (Cryosphere) |
II. The Reality
The reality is that it is quite easy to get the picture from tide gauge station records.
First off, one needs to know where the high sea levels are gravitationally and rotationally located (Earth gravity, ice sheet gravity, and the Earth's rotation create these highest sea level areas; see The Gravity of Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4).
The graphics at Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 show the higher and highest areas of the ocean (highest is in the Pacific with a 1.6 times higher area, and the next highest is in the Indian and South Atlantic ocean areas).
Next, to calculate the general sea level in those areas, all one needs to do is to get the sea level readings of a tide gauge station in the correct area, then multiply the appropriate values by 1.5 (Indian & S. Atlantic) or multiply by 1.6 (Pacific) to calculate those levels at any given time.
Then you can email the marine life there in the middle of nowhere and tell them about the sea level there. /snark
You can the use the tide gauge station record, as is, to inform humans who live near the tide gauge station about sea levels in their area.
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| Fig. 3 |
III. An Example
The graph at Fig. 3 is an example calculation from Dredd Blog software modules.
Those modules determine which WOD zones are along the equator, then query an SQL database (containing 1,465 PSMSL tide gauge station records from stations located around the globe) to determine which tide gauge station records to use.
Those data are averaged and changes are calculated, including the changes and sea level at the highest ocean levels way out in the middle of the ocean, far away from those stations.
Notice that Fig. 3 has four different panels based on the same data from the stations and zones listed in Section IV below.
The first panel ("RLR tide gauge sea level") pictures the RLR (Revised Local Reference) sea level.
The second panel ("sea level change @ tide gauges") shows the average change in sea level at the specified tide gauge stations.
Panel three ("sea level in 1.6 area") depicts the mean average of those same tide gauge stations multiplied by 1.6 (the area outlined as "1.6" in Fig. 2, its relative area marked by a red outlined rectangle with a small square at the center in Fig. 1).
The fourth and last panel ("sea level in 1.5 area") is the lower sea level in the area outlined as "1.5" on Fig. 2 (and shown by the other two rectangles at the Indian Ocean and the S. Atlantic on Fig. 1).
Note that the highest sea level (1.6 area) is 80.834 mm higher than the tide gauge station average shown in panel three on Fig. 3.
The second highest point (in the "1.5 area") is 67.362 mm higher than the tide gauge station average.
IV. The WOD Zones & PSMSL Stations
This section lists the zones and the tide gauge stations used to generate the data for the graph at Fig. 3 in Section III above (http links are provided below, to each PSMSL tide gauge station record used).
The WOD zone map is shown at Fig. 1:
Zone [1000] had [2] stations:
Stn# 1049, Stn# 389
Zone [1001] had [0] stations.
Zone [1002] had [0] stations.
Zone [1003] had [0] stations.
Zone [1004] had [0] stations.
Zone [1005] had [0] stations.
Zone [1006] had [0] stations.
Zone [1007] had [4] stations:
Stn# 438, Stn# 1072, Stn# 1258, Stn# 1753
Zone [1008] had [0] stations.
Zone [1009] had [5] stations:
Stn# 2195, Stn# 1752, Stn# 1676, Stn# 446, Stn# 2230
Zone [1010] had [25] stations:
Stn# 1595, Stn# 1594, Stn# 1591, Stn# 1593, Stn# 1677, Stn# 248, Stn# 1702, Stn# 1678, Stn# 1589, Stn# 1592, Stn# 1703, Stn# 1183, Stn# 1746, Stn# 1534, Stn# 2032, Stn# 1351, Stn# 2068, Stn# 2033, Stn# 1248, Stn# 2034, Stn# 1275, Stn# 1894, Stn# 724, Stn# 1895, Stn# 1896
Zone [1011] had [12] stations:
Stn# 1730, Stn# 1819, Stn# 1833, Stn# 1893, Stn# 1879, Stn# 1733, Stn# 1876, Stn# 1834, Stn# 1877, Stn# 1734, Stn# 2155, Stn# 207
Zone [1012] had [11] stations:
Stn# 1709, Stn# 2156, Stn# 537, Stn# 2152, Stn# 2153, Stn# 2175, Stn# 260, Stn# 2154, Stn# 2158, Stn# 2174, Stn# 1708
Zone [1013] had [1] station:
Stn# 1252
Zone [1014] had [0] stations.
Zone [1015] had [4] stations:
Stn# 528, Stn# 1473, Stn# 1370, Stn# 1925
Zone [1016] had [1] station:
Stn# 513
Zone [1017] had [6] stations:
Stn# 1381, Stn# 1579, Stn# 1739, Stn# 1804, Stn# 1217, Stn# 1838
Zone [3000] had [0] stations.
Zone [3001] had [1] station:
Stn# 938
Zone [3002] had [0] stations.
Zone [3003] had [2] stations:
Stn# 2183, Stn# 1600
Zone [3004] had [1] station:
Stn# 2198
Zone [3005] had [1] station:
Stn# 1846
Zone [3006] had [0] stations.
Zone [3007] had [3] stations:
Stn# 1740, Stn# 2190, Stn# 1707
Zone [3008] had [0] stations.
Zone [3009] had [0] stations.
Zone [3010] had [2] stations:
Stn# 2193, Stn# 2199
Zone [3011] had [2] stations:
Stn# 2197, Stn# 2200
Zone [3012] had [0] stations.
Zone [3013] had [1] station:
Stn# 2274
Zone [3014] had [7] stations:
Stn# 1303, Stn# 439, Stn# 1610, Stn# 1609, Stn# 1860, Stn# 1304, Stn# 1254
Zone [3015] had [4] stations:
Stn# 1164, Stn# 1608, Stn# 1373, Stn# 1861
Zone [3016] had [2] stations:
Stn# 1374, Stn# 1844
Zone [3017] had [2] stations:
Stn# 1452, Stn# 1839
Zone [5000] had [0] stations.
Zone [5001] had [1] station:
Stn# 1831
Zone [5002] had [0] stations.
Zone [5003] had [2] stations:
Stn# 556, Stn# 559
Zone [5004] had [2] stations:
Stn# 589, Stn# 580
Zone [5005] had [1] station:
Stn# 1975
Zone [5006] had [0] stations.
Zone [5007] had [2] stations:
Stn# 1277, Stn# 771
Zone [5008] had [4] stations:
Stn# 555, Stn# 544, Stn# 927, Stn# 475
Zone [5009] had [1] station:
Stn# 1645
Zone [5010] had [0] stations.
Zone [5011] had [0] stations.
Zone [5012] had [0] stations.
Zone [5013] had [0] stations.
Zone [5014] had [1] station:
Stn# 1555
Zone [5015] had [1] station:
Stn# 1450
Zone [5016] had [0] stations.
Zone [5017] had [2] stations:
Stn# 575, Stn# 1329
Zone [7000] had [2] stations:
Stn# 1313, Stn# 331
Zone [7001] had [0] stations.
Zone [7002] had [0] stations.
Zone [7003] had [0] stations.
Zone [7004] had [0] stations.
Zone [7005] had [1] station:
Stn# 2012
Zone [7006] had [0] stations.
Zone [7007] had [7] stations:
Stn# 456, Stn# 639, Stn# 163, Stn# 581, Stn# 1783, Stn# 1530, Stn# 169
Zone [7008] had [5] stations:
Stn# 464, Stn# 844, Stn# 2189, Stn# 668, Stn# 1571
Zone [7009] had [0] stations.
Zone [7010] had [0] stations.
Zone [7011] had [0] stations.
Zone [7012] had [0] stations.
Zone [7013] had [0] stations.
Zone [7014] had [0] stations.
Zone [7015] had [3] stations:
Stn# 1361, Stn# 801, Stn# 1371
Zone [7016] had [0] stations.
Zone [7017] had [0] stations.
Total Stations: 134
RE "Zone [7016] had [0] stations" and "Zone [7017] had [0] stations" etc ... note that zones way out in the ocean (where no people are) and zones over land only, will not have tide gauge stations.
For some reason, the marine life out there are unconcerned with the sea level changes since it does not affect them as it does humans.
V. Conclusion
The bathtub model trance (Choose Your Trances Carefully, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) is not a good choice, as the Monkey Business Insider will hopefully find out soon enough.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Homework for the Monkey Business Insider ... watch these, put your lab coat on, and get a fingerprint kit:
08:00 "the global average ... what seems to be a very logical thing to do has led us astray for the last hundred years ... the mainstream way of doing this ..."
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