Height above mean sea level
Elevation of a location above a standardized sea level / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"AMSL" redirects here. For other uses, see AMSL (disambiguation).
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level varies in different countries due to different reference points and historic measurement periods. Climate change and other forces can cause sea levels and elevations to vary over time.[1]