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... .SOURCE:NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.For further information,see NOAA,NOAA News Online,"Scientists Able to Measure Tsunami Height from Space," 2005, at .
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From page 48...
... SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. Reprinted with permission.
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  • pacific marine
  • grid box
  • red bars
  • world meteorological

  • tsunami height
  • sea surface
  • standard errors
  • measure tsunami
  • limb sounder

  • optimum averages
  • averages appear
  • satellite observation
  • ocean surface
  • assessment report

  • box land
  • nasa microwave
  • unsmoothed optimum
  • microwave limb
  • temperature anomalies

  • scientific assessment
  • meteorological organization
  • marine environmental
  • third assessment
  • temperature time

  • sampling density
  • annual global
  • sounder satellite
  • climate change
  • weighted anomalies


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