GRAVITY: It's Wireless

Fig. 1 Equatorial Band

In recent posts we took a look at the World Ocean Database (WOD) zone data for WOD Zones bordering the warm equatorial band around the globe (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 Water Temperature @ Equatorial Zones

Those posts were about ocean temperatures at various depths, not about sea level (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 7, The Warming Science Commentariat - 9).

One of the reasons that there was no extensive use of sea level rise or fall graphs is that I had lost all source code and data on two drives due to a defective installation program.

I then had to use PSMSL graphs because I had not downloaded the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) data to replace the previous data.

Now I have finally been able to do that.

Fig. 3 Sea Level Rise @ Equatorial Zones

I also developed a new software module that processes the PSMSL station data in conjunction with WOD zone data.

It processes PSMSL and WOD zone data as you can see at Fig. 3 (sea level rise history in the WOD zones outlined in Fig. 1, and graphed as to mean average temperatures in Fig. 2).

The software modules that analyze all of the upward and downward temperature movement, then condenses the data into mean averages per zone, were also presented.

Then the mean average effects for all equatorial zones was calculated:

Per-zone averages for 62 WOD Zones
(temperatures are in deg. C)
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Concerning change trends, the average was 91 upward& 88 downward trends.

Average changes per depth level were:

0-200m = 0.975682
200-400m = 0.0452542
400-600m = 0.00631903
600-800m = -0.0922035
800-1000m = -0.103676
1000-3000m = -0.453491
>3000m = 0.40285

Average change, all 7 levels: 0.111534
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Years involved: 1961 -> 2016 (55 yrs)

Average annual change per zone:
(0.111534 ÷ 55):
0.00202788 C per year

(The Warming Science Commentariat - 9, emphasis in original). The same WOD zone data that produced a net "0.00202788 C per year" (0.003650184 F) temperature increase result, for all zones and all depths combined, has stark contrast with the PSMSL data on sea level rise.

Fig. 4 Mean Average of 134 Tide Gauge Stations

That is, the graph of the sea level rise in the same equatorial zones (Fig. 3) is in stark contrast to the minuscule temperature rise graph (Fig. 2).

What we would expect from the warm-water equatorial regions around the Earth is a stark rise in temperatures to match the stark rise in sea level in the exact same equatorial zones.

We don't though, because the thermal expansion hypothesis is an ill advised myth (ibid), partially induced by Church et. al. PDF in 2011 ("Rising ... ocean thermal expansion ... is an important element of ... sea-level rise").

Prior to that, the myth was perpetuated in the IPCC 4th assessment (ibid, The Warming Science Commentariat - 9).

The bottom line question is: "did warming of 0.002 C yr (Fig. 2) cause the SLR and SLF pattern shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 ?"

The PSMSL station counts (and links) for each of the WOD Zones used to produce Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are as follows:

WOD Zone [1000] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1049
Stn# 389

WOD Zone [1001] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1002] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1003] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1004] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1005] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1006] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1007] had [4] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 438
Stn# 1072
Stn# 1258
Stn# 1753

WOD Zone [1008] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1009] had [5] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 2195
Stn# 1752
Stn# 1676
Stn# 446
Stn# 2230

WOD Zone [1010] had [25] PSMSL 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

WOD Zone [1011] had [12] PSMSL 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

WOD Zone [1012] had [11] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1709
Stn# 2156
Stn# 537
Stn# 2152
Stn# 2153
Stn# 2175
Stn# 260
Stn# 2154
Stn# 2158
Stn# 2174
Stn# 1708

WOD Zone [1013] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1252

WOD Zone [1014] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [1015] had [4] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 528
Stn# 1473
Stn# 1370
Stn# 1925

WOD Zone [1016] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 513

WOD Zone [1017] had [6] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1381
Stn# 1579
Stn# 1739
Stn# 1804
Stn# 1217
Stn# 1838

WOD Zone [3000] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3001] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 938

WOD Zone [3002] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3003] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 2183
Stn# 1600

WOD Zone [3004] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 2198

WOD Zone [3005] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1846

WOD Zone [3006] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3007] had [3] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1740
Stn# 2190
Stn# 1707

WOD Zone [3008] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3009] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3010] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 2193
Stn# 2199

WOD Zone [3011] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 2197
Stn# 2200

WOD Zone [3012] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [3013] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 2274

WOD Zone [3014] had [7] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1303
Stn# 439
Stn# 1610
Stn# 1609
Stn# 1860
Stn# 1304
Stn# 1254

WOD Zone [3015] had [4] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1164
Stn# 1608
Stn# 1373
Stn# 1861

WOD Zone [3016] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1374
Stn# 1844

WOD Zone [3017] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1452
Stn# 1839

WOD Zone [5000] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5001] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1831

WOD Zone [5002] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5003] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 556
Stn# 559

WOD Zone [5004] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 589
Stn# 580

WOD Zone [5005] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1975

WOD Zone [5006] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5007] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1277
Stn# 771

WOD Zone [5008] had [4] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 555
Stn# 544
Stn# 927
Stn# 475

WOD Zone [5009] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1645

WOD Zone [5010] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5011] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5012] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5013] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5014] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1555

WOD Zone [5015] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 1450

WOD Zone [5016] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [5017] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 575
Stn# 1329

WOD Zone [7000] had [2] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1313
Stn# 331

WOD Zone [7001] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7002] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7003] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7004] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7005] had [1] PSMSL station:

Stn# 2012

WOD Zone [7006] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7007] had [7] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 456
Stn# 639
Stn# 163
Stn# 581
Stn# 1783
Stn# 1530
Stn# 169

WOD Zone [7008] had [5] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 464
Stn# 844
Stn# 2189
Stn# 668
Stn# 1571

WOD Zone [7009] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7010] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7011] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7012] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7013] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7014] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7015] had [3] PSMSL stations:

Stn# 1361
Stn# 801
Stn# 1371

WOD Zone [7016] had [0] PSMSL stations.
WOD Zone [7017] had [0] PSMSL stations.

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Total PSMSL stations: 134

Remember that all of these zones have the equator as either their southern or their northern border, so they are similar zones in terms of ocean temperature (we are not comparing apples and oranges). Stay tuned, spread the word, gravity is wireless (The Gravity of Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4; The Ghost-Water Constant, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).