Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements | Watts Up With That?
now it could just be that JPL wants some more funding but it certainly is in line with how the 'uncertainty' is altimetry has been publically acknowledged lately.
of course even better data wont stop some of the climate scientists from making any speculative conclusion that they want.
A climate science bombshell: New proposal from NASA JPL admits to spurious errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem.
People send me stuff. Today it is a PowerPoint presentation from NASA JPL that touts the new GRASP (Geodetic Reference Antenna in Space) satellite project. Id say it is more than a bit of a bombshell because the whole purpose of this new mission is to fix other mission data that apparently never had a stable enough reference for the measurements being made. This promises to rewrite what we know about sea level rise and acceleration, ice extent and ice volume loss measured from space.
now it could just be that JPL wants some more funding but it certainly is in line with how the 'uncertainty' is altimetry has been publically acknowledged lately.
of course even better data wont stop some of the climate scientists from making any speculative conclusion that they want.