"Tidal gauges in Key West have recorded a nine-inch rise in sea level, since 1930, " said Dr . Harold Wanless, professor of geological sciences at the University of Miami.
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He established a tidal gauge network, gave an explanation for the Pacific oxygen minimum zone under the thermocline, and discovered the ocean current jet that now bears his name, the " Wyrtki Jet ".
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While overall sea level rise has held steady according to the tidal gauges, autumn king tides in the 21st century that greatly exceed predictions have caused much " " nuisance flooding " in the Miami metropolitan area.
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Technology, such as tremor and tidal gauges, fast data transfer and alarm mechanisms, used in combination with training in the danger zones, would have given hundreds of thousands of people time to move to the safety of higher ground.
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:Smaller water waves were detected in fairly crude tidal gauges in the English channel-which is about as far from Krakatoa as you can get-so our guy in his rowboat " might " be able to detect it-but again, you wouldn't feel those at the bottom of the ocean-only in the surface layers of the water.
