The oceans aren’t level. Over the span of decades, atmospheric - TopicsExpress



          

The oceans aren’t level. Over the span of decades, atmospheric weather patterns push water around, causing sea levels in connected ocean basins to rise and fall somewhat predictably. However, since 2000 the two huge basins in the Southern Hemisphere — the Indian and the Pacific — have broken their trend, rising jointly over 2 mm per year. A paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Philip Thompson (UHSLC associate director) and Mark Merrifield (UHSLC and JIMAR director) proposes that this new development, found using satellite-derived sea height data, could be due to changes in a large climate system that wraps around the entire Southern Hemisphere.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:31:27 +0000

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