Sea levels are expected to rise around the contiguous U.S. faster than previously thought, a new NASA study finds.
Sea levels are likely rising faster than previously thought, meaning low-lying coastal cities in the U.S. could flood far more regularly in the coming decades, a NASA study has revealed.
NASA's study built on methods used in the earlier multi-agency report, and was headed by a team of researchers and scientists based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, which is dedicated to both exploring the deepest recesses of space, and also using satellites to"advance understanding" of Earth.
This viewpoint is shared by David Holland , a physical climate scientist and professor of mathematics at New York University who was not involved with the study."The quality of the satellite data is excellent, and so the findings are reliable," Holland told Live Science in an email."The study shows that the global ocean is rising, and more than that, the rise is accelerating. The projected rise for the Gulf coast of about 1 foot by 2050 is enormous.
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