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October 19, 2016

Historical Records May Underestimate Sea Level Rise
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2016
A new NASA and university study using NASA satellite data finds that tide gauges - the longest and highest-quality records of historical ocean water levels - may have underestimated the amount of global average sea level rise that occurred during the 20th century. A research team led by Philip Thompson, associate director of the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Manoa, evaluated how various processes that cause sea level to change differ ... read more

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