The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.
Published Nov 5, 2020
Scientists are probing environmental data from reanalysis models in the hopes of finding answers.
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