Sea Level in Relation to Atmospheric Pressure

1926 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
H. A. Marmer ◽  
Alfred Wegener ◽  
A. T. Doodson ◽  
Sinkiti Ogura
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure

scholarly journals Comments on nitrogen excretion from the diver’s organism during the reduced pressure at the final decompression station (< 1 ata)

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Doboszyński ◽  
Bogdan Łokucijewski
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Mountain Lakes ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Nitrogen Excretion ◽  
Reduced Pressure ◽  
Proper Consideration

Abstract The authors discuss the effect of reduced pressure at the final decompression station on nitrogen excretion from the organism of a diver. The assumed basis for the said considerations was the course of decompression during dives performed in lakes located at a significant altitude above sea level and diver transportation by plane following dive completion. Based on the presented calculations the authors conclude that air transport can take place only upon the lapse of time calculated with regard to the diving conditions and the expected altitude of the flight. Diving in mountain lakes requires proper consideration of the effects of the decreased atmospheric pressure.

scholarly journals Detection and Characterization of Meteotsunamis in the Gulf of Genoa

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Picco ◽  
Schiano ◽  
Incardone ◽  
Repetti ◽  
Demarte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Tidal Elevation ◽  
Port Management ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Abrupt Jump ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Work Planning

A long-term time series of high-frequency sampled sea-level data collected in the port of Genoa were analyzed to detect the occurrence of meteotsunami events and to characterize them. Time-frequency analysis showed well-developed energy peaks on a 26–30 minute band, which are an almost permanent feature in the analyzed signal. The amplitude of these waves is generally few centimeters but, in some cases, they can reach values comparable or even greater than the local tidal elevation. In the perspective of sea-level rise, their assessment can be relevant for sound coastal work planning and port management. Events having the highest energy were selected for detailed analysis and the main features were identified and characterized by means of wavelet transform. The most important one occurred on 14 October 2016, when the oscillations, generated by an abrupt jump in the atmospheric pressure, achieved a maximum wave height of 50 cm and lasted for about three hours.

Continental shelf waves and their influence on the circulation around the Great Barrier Reef

1983 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Wolanski ◽  
AF Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Internal Tides ◽  
Wind Component ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Longshore Current ◽  
Shelf Waves

Winds and atmospheric pressure, sea level and water currents were measured at several locations over the continental shelf, both east and west of the Great Barrier Reef, between 14.5�s. and 20�S., from June to November 1980. The dominant wind direction changed from westward over the Coral Sea to north- westward (roughly parallel to the shore) over the shelf. A strong non-tidal low-frequency signal in all sea- level and longshore current data was found, highly coherent from site to site and strongly correlated with the longshore wind component over the shelf, though not with the atmospheric pressure. A model of wind- driven barotropic shelf waves is used to explain a number of observations, such as the invariance of temporal fluctuations of longshore current with distance from shore, and the northward longshore propagation of oceanic disturbances at a speed equal to twice that of the first-mode barotropic free shelf wave, a speed one order of magnitude smaller than that of the wind system. The low-frequency current fluctuations resulted in large water displacements, up and down the coast. Low-frequency cross-shelf currents were much weaker and less coherent. Two upwelling mechanisms are internal tides and internal Kelvin waves coupled to the barotropic shelf waves.

scholarly journals Impacts of Atmospheric Pressure on the Annual Maximum of Monthly Sea-Levels in the Northeast Asian Marginal Seas

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
MyeongHee Han ◽  
Yang-Ki Cho ◽  
Hyoun-Woo Kang ◽  
SungHyun Nam ◽  
Do-Seong Byun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Northwest Pacific Ocean ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Marginal Seas ◽  
Pressure Zone ◽  
Northeast Asian

Monthly mean sea-levels have annual maxima in August in the northeast Asian marginal seas (NEAMS). Based on satellite altimetry data, the rising rate of the August NEAMS sea-level (ANS, 4.2 mm∙yr−1) is greater than those of the NEAMS (3.6 mm∙yr−1) and global (3.4 mm∙yr−1) annual mean sea-levels. Thus, the interannual variations of ANS are classified as relatively high (period H) and low (period L) years and have been analysed because of the high risk of sea-level fluctuation to the coastal regions in August. In period H, there are large atmospheric pressure gradients between the high pressure zone in the Kuroshio Extension (KE) and the low pressure zone in the west of Taiwan (WT). In period L, the atmospheric pressure gradients are small between the above-mentioned zones. Large atmospheric pressure gradients induce strong west-northwestward wind stresses and more Ekman transport from the northwest Pacific Ocean into the NEAMS. The correlation coefficient between August NEAMS sea-level index (ANSI), which is the difference of atmospheric pressure anomalies between the KE and the WT, and the August NEAMS sea-level anomaly (ANSA) is 0.73. Although there is a significant correlation (coefficient: 0.64) between ANSA and the East Asian summer monsoon index (EASMI), ANSI might be more useful in estimating the variability of ANSA.

Inflammability and Electrical Studies of Foams Which may Occur at Altitude by De-Aeration of Aviation Turbine Fuels

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (586) ◽  
pp. 581-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. V. Poulston ◽  
A. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Ambient Pressure ◽  
Electrical Charge ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Electrical Studies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Short Time

Air dissolves in aircraft fuels to an extent directly proportional to the ambient pressure, so that when fuel which has been stored at sea-level atmospheric pressure is taken up to a high altitude, there is a tendency for air to come out of solution. In certain circumstances, which are later described in detail, air bubbles can be liberated very violently from fuels in aircraft tanks at high altitude and a thick foam can form on the surface for a short time.The production of fuel foams by degassing has posed a certain problem; foams, being intimate mixtures of air and fuel, may well be inflammable; furthermore, the rising of air bubbles through fuel can result in the accumulation of electrical charge in the foam giving rise to the possibility of a source of ignition.

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