Manmade Global Warming - New Extremes, page-9060

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    Lol...so you dont think its been studied ...and your uneducated opinion is correct...lol...

    " You don’t need a Degree to understand that ocean level doesn’t rise, unevenly"
    wow....

    Are sea levels rising the same all over the world, as if we're filling a giant bathtub?
    No. Sea level rise is uneven, the two main reasons being ocean dynamics and Earth’s uneven gravity field.

    First, ocean dynamics is the redistribution of mass due to currents driven by wind, heating, evaporation and precipitation. For example, during La Niña events, sea level goes down because some rain that usually occurs over the ocean shifts to land, and the same phenomenon produces low latitude currents that redistribute seawater. Regional climate cycles, like El Niño and La Niña, and longer-term effects, like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, change ocean circulation, which changes sea level.

    Earth's gravity field
    A visualization of Earth’s gravity field using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data. Gravity is determined by mass; Earth’s mass is not distributed equally, and it also changes over time. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Texas Center for Space Research
    Second, because the distribution of Earth’s mass is uneven, Earth’s gravity is also uneven. Therefore, the ocean’s surface isn’t actually a perfect sphere or ellipsoid; it is a bumpy surface. As the land-based ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica continue to unload their mass (lose ice) from far above sea level and far from the tropics, that mass reaches the sea in the form of meltwater that is then redistributed along Earth’s gravity field.


 
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