Satellite settles sloping sea squabble in north Atlantic

Data from the European Space Agency's gravity satellite has been used to resolve an argument over sea sloping on North America's eastern coast.

In case you're unfamiliar with the two sides of the argument, measurements by geodesists had the height of the sea rising as you move up the coast while oceanographers argued that it was actually falling. According to the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), the oceanographers were correct.

By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Ian Steadman

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via Wired.co.uk



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