New research shows that in 2010 and 2011, enough rainwater collected in Australia to temporarily halt a long-term trend of global sea level rise, according to a study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, with coauthors from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Colorado at Boulder, to be published in September in Geophysical Research Letters. When three atmospheric patterns came together over the Indian and Pacific oceans during that period, they drove so much precipitation over Australia—almost 300 millimeters of rain more than normal—that the world's ocean levels dropped measurably.
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机译：根据美国国家大气研究中心（National Center for Atmospheric Research）牵头的一项研究，以及来自NASA喷气推进实验室和美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的合著者，一项新研究表明，在2010年和2011年，澳大利亚收集到的雨水足以暂时阻止全球海平面上升的长期趋势。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校，将于9月发表在《地球物理研究快报》上。在此期间，当印度和太平洋上的三种大气模式汇聚在一起时，它们驱使澳大利亚上空产生了如此多的降雨（比正常降雨多了近300毫米的降雨），以至于世界海平面明显下降。
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