I am working on a research project involving damming and draining the whole of the North Sea. I want to know approximately what affect this would have on global average sea levels. But I can't work out how to go about calculating this.
The total volume of water in the North Sea is 54,000 cubic kilometers. The total volume of saliant water on Earth is around 1.35 billion cubic kilometers.
If anyone can help or give me any pointers that would be much appreciated.
I am working on a research project involving damming and draining the whole of the North Sea. I want to know approximately what affect this would have on global average sea levels. But I can't work out how to go about calculating this.
The total volume of water in the North Sea is 54,000 cubic kilometers. The total volume of saliant water on Earth is around 1.35 billion cubic kilometers.
If anyone can help or give me any pointers that would be much appreciated.
Regards Farchitect
It's a fairly well known factoid that 70% of the earths surface is ocean so for an approximate answer you could calculate the total surface area of the earth and see how thick a layer containing 54000 cubic km would be if it was spread over 70% of that area.
It's a fairly well known factoid that 70% of the earths surface is ocean so for an approximate answer you could calculate the total surface area of the earth and see how thick a layer containing 54000 cubic km would be if it was spread over 70% of that area.