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Submarine Optical Fibers: A Window into Climate Change
Distributed acoustic sensing, increasingly recognized as a potential tool for seismic monitoring, can provide insights on ocean circulation, marine-mammal migration and other climate-relevant parameters.
[S. Myshkovsky / Getty Images]
Since the beginning of the last century, the average temperature of planet Earth has climbed at a steadily faster pace. Climate change is perhaps the most pressing challenge faced by humanity, with far-reaching implications. The melting of polar ice increases global average sea level, threatening coastal communities. Warming also boosts the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves—events that not only cause immediate devastation but also have long-term socioeconomic impacts, particularly on vulnerable communities and low-resource countries.
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