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Sea height measured from orbit

Recorded year1992

NASA and France's TOPEX/Poseidon radar altimeter maps sea-surface height to a few centimetres, starting the satellite record of rising seas.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.