Sea levels are rising rapidly along the southeastern coast of the United States and along the Gulf Coast. Tulane University reports.
Sönke Dangendorf and colleagues estimate that, on average, water levels in these areas have increased by half an inch per year since 2010. “These rates are unprecedented, at least in the 20th century, and are three times the world average for the same period,” says the scientist.
Scientists have come to these conclusions. by combining results of field observations with satellite image data. However, the authors were unable to explain such a rapid increase despite analysis of many factors, including the vertical movement of the terrain, the loss of ice mass, and the dynamics of atmospheric pressure. In many ways this is affected by the warming of the waters, which leads to a slight (for the eye) increase in their volume. In general, the region of anomalous sea level rise extends from North Carolina to the Caribbean Sea and affects nearly the entire southeastern United States.
According to the study’s authors, such a sharp rise in sea level is associated with a superposition of anthropogenic factors on the natural peak associated with natural weather fluctuations. Rates should return to normal in the coming decades, as climate models predict.
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