Sea level the warmer water expands. For at least the last 100 years, sea level has been rising at an average rate of about per year. Most of this rise can be attributed to the increase in temperature of the sea and the resulting slight thermal expansion of the upper of sea water. Additional contributions, as much as one-quarter of the total, come from water sources on land, such as melting snow and glaciers and extraction of groundwater for irrigation and other agricultural and human uses. Pilots can estimate height above sea level with an altimeter set to a defined barometric pressure.
Mastogloia Sea a new outlet at the Great Belt. The Ancylus Lake reached the level of the sea ca. 8500 years ago, marking the beginning of the Mastogloia Sea (Björck 1995, Donner 1995). At this time the global sea level was rising rapidly as the melting of the last remnants of the great ice age ice sheets still continued (Fleming "et al." 1998). As a result, some amounts of salt water started to penetrate into the Baltic basin through the Danish straits, mixing into the vast freshwater body. This resulted in slightly brackish conditions in the Baltic. The Mastogloia Sea bears the