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Discover LudwigThe phrase "average sea level" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in discussions related to geography, oceanography, and climate science to refer to the mean height of the ocean's surface.
Example: "The coastal city is at risk of flooding due to rising average sea levels caused by climate change."
Alternatives: "mean sea level" or "standard sea level".
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In the leveling survey up until 1995, average sea level as measured by the tide level gauge was taken as the reference height.
In the leveling survey until 1995, the average sea level measured by the tide level gauge was taken as the reference height (the location of tide level gauge is shown by a star in Fig. 1c).
Over the past century, global average sea level has risen by about 8 inches.
This is a contour map of monthly average sea level pressure for the globe.
In addition to water-level changes resulting from waves and tide, the average sea level varies throughout the year.
This is a contour map of monthly average sea level pressure standardized anomalies for the globe with respect to the 1981-2010 climatology.
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This is nearly three times the average for Bangladesh and up to five times the worldwide average sea-level rise.
Winters here can be dreary, with average sea-level temperatures in the low 50's and up to six inches of rain a day in certain parts of the park.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gauge at Virginia Key, just off the Miami shoreline, had an average sea-level height from 2012 to 2016 that was about 4 inches higher than the average from two decades earlier.
Average sea-level rise from 1993 and 2006 was3.3 mm/yr, higher than predicted by IPCC models.
It included an estimate of global average sea-level rise in its executive summary, and that was based on two things: thermal expansion as warmer water takes up more space, and melting ice from glaciers and polar ice caps.
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