SYDNEY, July 7 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say computer models predicting the rate of polar ice melting and sea level rise are too conservative and have failed to account for increasingly disruptive westerly winds in the Antarctic.
Paul Spence, an oceanographer at the University of New South Whales' Climate Change Research Center, says westerly winds in the Southern Ocean will soon conflate the coastal easterlies and confuse the balance of cold and warm water just off the Antarctic shore.