👨‍🔬⚗️🔬 How Warming Water Causes Sea Level Rise

Creato da: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Anno: 2020.

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Sea level rise is caused by several different processes, including melting ice. But one big contributor to sea level rise is increasing global temperatures, which heat seas and cause something called thermal expansion of water. Thermal expansion happens when water gets warmer, which causes the volume of the water to increase. About half of the measured global sea level rise on Earth is from warming waters and thermal expansion. You can see how this process works by building a model using everyday items to demonstrate that water expands when heat energy is added.