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135-Year-Old Data Helps Understand Climate Change
2013-05-29 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Ocean data collected over 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition has helped confirm global warming. Researchers from NASA and the University of Tasmania used the data to provide further confirmation that humans have played a part in today`s changing global climate. The team combined the ship`s measurements of ocean temperatures with modern observations from the international Argo array of ocean profiling floats. They used state-of-the-art climate models to get...
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