Joseph Castro, LiveScience Staff Writer
Date: 02 April 2012 Time: 09:20 AM ET
The world’s oceans have been warming for more than 100 years, twice as long as previously believed, new research suggests.
The findings could help scientists better understand the Earth’s record of sea-level rise, which is partly due to the expansion of water that happens as it heats up, researchers added.
“Temperature is one of the most fundamental descriptors of the physical state of the ocean,” said the study’s lead author,Dean Roemmich, an oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego. “Beyond simply knowing that the oceans are warming, [the results] will help us answer a few climate questions.”
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