Researchers propose a new more accurate method instead.
The sea floor is sinking.
As a result scientists have underestimated how much sea levels are rising by.
This can disguise the actual rise of sea levels in many parts of the planet and actually cover up.
A sinking floor is usually a sign that the floor has begun to rot out from the underside meaning the joists or other elements of the subfloor have failed.
The first study to calculate how much the ocean floor is sinking due to the extra weight of meltwater going into the sea has been.
Such zones would include the.
This map shows gravity anomalies in the western indian ocean.
Satellite data enables scientists to map the seafloor which is sinking under the weight of rising seas.
The enormous mass that gets added to the ocean is causing the sea floor to warp sink and deform.
The results show that the ocean is changing in ways we didn t realize and is sinking further into the earth s crust.
The ocean floor is sinking under the weight of climate change and calculations to determine sea level rise don t take that fact into equation.
This theory proposes that the plates are dragged apart by the sinking of cold dense slabs of sea floor along zones of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.