causes of sea level change

NOC contributes to NASA-led study revealing the causes of sea level rise since 1900

The NOC has contributed to a new study by NASA, published in Nature

When did modern rates of sea level rise start?

Extracting cores from a marsh in southern New Zealand (courtesy: Prof Gehrels)

Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool and Professor Roland Gehrels of Plymouth University asked when sea level rise started to accelerate – and narrowed it down to a point in the early 1900s.

Global sea levels are rising.

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