Science
News: Not only has sea-level rise not been uniform along
the West Coast of the US, as noted in
yesterday's
News Pick, researchers have been monitoring a similar
phenomenon along the East Coast. Asbury Sallenger Jr of the US
Geological Survey and colleagues have noted a "hot spot" that
extends from Boston to North Carolina's Cape Hatteras. In
a
paper published 24 June in
Nature Climate Change, they show evidence that between
1950â79 and 1980â2009,
sea-level rate increases in that area were 3â4
times higher than the global average. They attribute the
accelerated pace to local dynamic processes, including wind
patterns and currents, which may be changing due to global
warming.
