Indian Ocean coastline of Kenya and Somalia (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Indian Ocean coastline of Kenya and Somalia

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The Indian Ocean coastline of Kenya and Somalia is pictured from the International Space Station above the African continent. A new study shows how past climate records on land and at the sea surface allow scientists to better predict the extent that land will warm more than the ocean – a phenomenon called terrestrial amplification.

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