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I'm forwarded a news article from JPL regarding the measurement of
sea level. I have two questions:
(1) How is sea level defined? For instance, this may come as a shock
to you, I don't know, but sea level on the Atlantic side of the
Panama Canal is at a different elevation than sea level on the
Pacific side.
(2) It seems that the article quotes one source as saying that half
of the measured rise in sea level is due to thermal expansion of the
oceans. Another source says that over half of the rise in sea level
is due to melting glaciers. Is this a contradiction or am I missing
something?
Aaron