In article <9ujs14lkfnujusbu9o3s6dblhakbmg3sqc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Reunite
Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sun, 04 May 2008 13:53:14 -0700, ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Charles
>Bishop) wrote:
>
>> I understand the concept of MSL, but is it necessarily true that if you
>> can see the ocean from a parking lot, the level of the ocean in that
spot,
>> at that time, is MSL? If not, what + or - could be given to Lee's
>> estimated 8'? That is, if MSL is maybe different from the level of the
>> ocean in his parking lot, how much different is it likely to be?
>
>No. See the M in MSL? That stands for "Mean". Mean Sea Level isn't
>bad-tempered, just average.
>
I knew that and thought I was accounting for it. Did I make a mistake that
you can see that I can't? Lee said (from memory, you snipped the quote I
was replying to) that the parking lot was 8' above MSL, since he could
presumably see the ocean from where he sat. I was asking, jocularly, how
he knew it was 8' above MSL, since the ocean he could see probably wasn't
at MSL. allowing for tides and such. How much the difference, I didn't
know.
>As to how different current sea level and mean sea level may be, it
>can be feet.
That's what I meant.
>
>Mary "Turnagain Bay comes to mind boringly"
charles, I mentioned the famous Fundy
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