Friday, February 28, 2020

The World According To Measurements - 25

"Rockin' In The Free World"

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.





The next post in this series is here, previous post in this series is here.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Seaports With Sea Level Change - 8

The Cryosphere (areas within the Cyan colored lines)
SLF Seaport locations (red squares)
This post supplements Seaports With Sea Level Change - 6 by adding sea level change (SLC) graphs to match the details presented in that post.

The appendices listed in that post are re-listed in the table below, however, an additional column contains links to graphs of the same countries and ports featured in that post.

It adds another dimension when readers can see not only the numbers indicating SLC at those locations over the years, but to also see a graph of those numbers.

The following table has the links to the countries with their seaports and with their SLC data (countries are listed alphabetically):

Single-Coastline
Countries
Multi-Coastline
Countries
Graphs of those
Countries
Appendix: A - CAppendix: A - CAppendix: A - C
Appendix: D - GAppendix: D - GAppendix: D - G
Appendix: H - LAppendix: H - LAppendix: H - L
Appendix: M - OAppendix: M - OAppendix: M - O
Appendix: P - TAppendix: P - TAppendix: P - T
Appendix: U - ZAppendix: U -ZAppendix: U -Z


The patterns on the graphs vary significantly due to quantity of in situ measurements at the zone level.

I am considering a future post with graphs at the coastline code level (a larger area) which will smooth some of them out.

Some countries have coasts on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico, others have only one coastline on one ocean area.

Additionally, these graphs are at the millimeter level so the appearance would lead one to think these are radical changes, but they are not really (the "RLR mm" value is explained here).

But the wavy up and downs remind us that the ocean is not a bath tub.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

Appendix A-C (SWSLC-8)

This is an appendix to: Seaports With Sea Level Change - 8