{"id":609435,"date":"2019-04-12T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609435"},"modified":"2019-04-20T23:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T03:03:05","slug":"getting-ready-to-chart-sea-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609435","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready to chart sea level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2019\/04\/copernicus_sentinel-6_radiometer_integration\/19348810-1-eng-GB\/Copernicus_Sentinel-6_radiometer_integration_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRecords show that, on average, global sea level rose by 3.2 mm a year between 1993 and 2018, but hidden within this average is the fact that the rate of rise has been accelerating over the last few years. Taking measurements of the height of the sea surface is essential to monitoring this worrying trend \u2013 and the Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission is on the way to being ready to do just this.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Getting_ready_to_chart_sea_level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" >Getting ready to chart sea level<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Copernicus_Sentinel-6_radiometer_integration_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\"><br \/>\nSource: ESA Observing Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records show that, on average, global sea level rose by 3.2 mm a year between 1993 and 2018, but hidden within this average is the fact that the rate of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609436,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609437,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609435\/revisions\/609437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}