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Although that rise isn't much more than the length of a fingernail, it was actually a frightening leap on long-term trends that a new study suggests was driven by a particularly extreme and unusual climate period. since 1993, the first year that NASA satellites were whizzing around our planet monitoring changes in sea levels.
A new study from a team of oceanographers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research has linked that sudden jump to back-to-back El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean, which appears to have sped up sea-level rise by shifting rainfall patterns and drying out the Amazon Basin., an irregular shift in wind patterns and sea surface temperatures that swings back and forth across the tropical Pacific Ocean.
To come to this finding, the researchers combined data from multiple satellites and a global array of floating ocean sensors, and analyzed the changes in ocean temperatures, ocean mass, and the amount of water stored on land, in river systems like the Amazon Basin.covers about 35 percent of the South American continent, a huge water catchment consisting of the Amazon River and its capillary-like tributaries.
Ice sheets melting and other land water changes were also a factor, but the drying out Amazon Basin alone contributed 5 millimeters to rising seas during this period.
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