TONGA BELOW SEA LEVEL
KINGDOM OF TONGA 2010
The South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project publishes monthly figures from 12 monitoring stations. In the last 15 years, the latest figures show that the sea level around the Pacific islands of Tonga appears to have risen by about 10 cm in the past 13 years.
The latest monthly data report shows that for the stations that have been monitored for more than 10 years, the sea level rise trend is highest in FMS and Tonga, with a rise of 9.4 millimetres a year. The highest peaks in 2010 have been recorded in Federate States of Micronesia with a rise of 21.5 cm.
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