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Axel Bojanowski Nature Geoscience 4, 421 (2011)
Published online 30 June 2011
Some giants are so big, they are practically invisible.
Geophysicists have discovered one of them — a huge hump of water in the South Pacific that is imperceptible to the naked eye. Satellites aided scientists in tracking the phenomenon. Carmen Böning and her colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have reported a bulge in ocean waters that extended over an area the size of Australia for some months, and measured up to six centimetres in height (C. Böning et al. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L04602; 2011). A “record” or an “unusual maximum”, say the researchers.
From: www.nature.com/ngeo
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