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Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project Levelling & GNSS Monitoring Survey Reports 2018 - 2020

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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Pacific Community (SPC) work together on the Australian Aid funded Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project (PSLGMP). The project is focused on determining the long-term variation in sea level through observation and analysis of changes in the height of the land (using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data) and changes in the sea level (using tide gauges managed and operated by the BoM. It is the role of GA and SPC to provide information about ‘absolute’ movement of the tide gauge (managed by BoM) using GNSS to continuously monitor land motion and using levelling (SPC) to measure the height difference between the tide gauge and GNSS pillar every 18 months.

Land movement caused by earthquakes, subsidence and surface uplift have an important effect on sea level observations at tide gauges. For example, a tide gauge connected to a pier which is subsiding at a rate of 5 mm per year would be observed as a rate of 5 mm per year of sea level rise at the tide gauge. Because of this, it is important to measure, and account for, the movement of land when measuring ‘absolute’ sea level variation - the change in the sea level relative to the centre of the Earth. Relative sea level variation on the other hand is measured relative to local buildings and landmass around the coastline. Geoscience Australia’s work enables more accurate 'absolute' sea level estimates by providing observations of land motion which can be accounted for by BoM when analysing the tide gauge data.

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Title Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project Levelling & GNSS Monitoring Survey Reports 2018 - 2020
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/f53d854a-a2e0-49ca-987e-88097125e5d7
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Geoscience Australia
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 15/08/2023
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[169.0, -4.0], [168.0, -4.0], [168.0, -3.0], [169.0, -3.0], [169.0, -4.0]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project Levelling & GNSS Monitoring Survey Reports 2018 - 2020". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/pacific-sea-level-and-geodetic-monitoring-project-levelling-gnss-monitoring-survey-re-2018-2020