What's delaying UC sea level data from being updated?

I sent an email to the folks up at CU asking when the website would be updated. This was on Feb 22, 2011. I received the following reply on Feb 23, 2011:

Jack,
Thanks for your inquiry about the Sea Level Change Research web site
(http://sealevel.colorado.edu). I work with Professor Nerem at CU, and
he forwarded to me your message. Almost all of the 2010 data are
already on the site, but 2011 data will begin to be added after the
data are released by NASA/CNES. We have been updating the sea level
data approximately bimonthly (every two months). The altimeter data
are released by NASA/CNES as a 10-day group of files corresponding to
the satellite track repeat cycle (10 days). There is also a two-month
delay between the time the data are collected on the satellite to
their final product generation (known as a final geophysical data
record (GDR)). We use these final GDR products in the global mean sea
level estimates. If possible, we are planning to shorten the time
between our global mean sea level updates.
We are currently reworking the web site, and a new feature will be RSS
and email subscriptions to our updates. I will send an email to you
when these features are ready.

Ummm….why does the chart imply that the temperatures TODAY are still being just as suppressed by the “nuclear winter” and need correcting?

OF COURSE it’s due to AGW…..
It’s so warm it’s evaporated………
Prove me wrong….go on…dares yer…

“…when I started mooring a boat here in the Mediterranean sea,…”
The Med is clearly connected to the world ocean, but has not got much in the way of tides, which would seem to help to even out sea level on a daily basis and make altimeter readings more uniform. However, the seasonal difference would still be problematic. The level of the Med is lower than the world ocean in summer because of high evaporation. I am not certain, but I would guess that the level of the Med is higher in winter because of inflow from rivers and evaporation that is lower than in summer.
So data from the Med would need to be smoothed in a different way from oceanic data.

How do you measure sea level using satellites?

Very accurately. It is a really good way to measure sea level.

Geoff Sharp says:
April 6, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Do any other institutions monitor sea levels, or perhaps we can get the raw data and plot ourselves.
The French seem to be a bit more up to date. AVISO (Archivage, Validation et Interprétation des données des Satellites Océanographiques) is a joint project of CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales – French equivalent of NASA) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites). They have data up to 2011.038337 (January 14, 2011) while the University of Colorado at Boulder Sea level change site only has it up to 2010.7415 (September 28, 2010).
The two datasets are not directly comparable as they use different adjustments and these are poorly documented at both sites.

@Cassandra King
One would think that falling sea level would be the death of CAGW, but we thought that about colder winters, recovering sea ice, no tropospheric hotspot, etc.
Now it will be “global warming will leave the world’s shipping ports high and dry as the oceans evaporate and destroy the global economy.” Or something.
It will always be something. Too many powerful people have too much money invested in this hoax for it to go away.

I’m 95% certain that the missing sea water is currently “in the pipeline” in the deep ocean trenches.
I’m 4% sure that since the CO2 level is going up, the atmosphere is denser and is pushing the sea-level back down.
I’m 1% certain that I am 99% likely to be wrong.

What have a few decades worth of sea level data got to do with anything?
PK Banerjee,reported greater than 1,000 mm fall in sea level during the Little Ice Age (Marine Geology, Volume 167, Issues 3-4, 15 July 2000).
He considered this minor! Should we not expect sea level to rebound by at least 1,000 mm in 300 years? Should we consider this a minor rise? Why not?
Why should sea level remain at a point convenient for people who want to locate cities near the sea coasts?
From the abstract, “…. The Holocene highstand reached nearly 3 m above LTL at 7.3 ka, remained stable for approximately 1.7 kyr and was followed by a relative sea level fall. Between 5.2 and 4.2 ka, there was a second pulse of relative sea level rise of a few metres leading to a fresh spurt in coral growth along the northern coast of Mandapam and Rameswaram [east coast of India]. This was nearly contemporaneous with fresh melting of ice sheets of Antarctica. The Little Ice Age (LIA) witnessed a minor (>1 m) relative sea level fall along this coast, resulting in rapid diagenetic hardening and infiltration of goethite into the emerged foreshore sand at Karikovil and its neighbourhood. This was followed by a rise of the sea level during the last few centuries.”
For non-scientists, the Holocene is roughly the last 10,000 years. Sea level has risen about 120-140 metres (450 feet), mainly from glacier meltwater entering the world ocean but also from thermal expansion of water.

Delighted you have asked the question Anthony, however I won’t hold my breath.

Frank White: If the estimate of ~1 meter sea level drop during the LIA is correct, one really has to wonder what all the fuss is about – we’ve only regained 20-30 % of that so far! And even with 3mm/year, we’ll need another 250 years for the remaining, i.e. a total of about 550 years of rising sea levels – that’s probably a longer timeframe than the preceding period of dropping sea levels, i.e. a slower rate.

The water must be going SOMEWHERE! The warming is probably evaporating it, so that it’s now lurking somewhere in the atmosphere waiting to dump floods of water and excessive snow which will then melt and cause even more floods.
There! All fiddled fixed!