New Approach to Forecast Sea-Level Changes in Coastal Regions of the World Written by AZoCleantechApr 8 2021 At the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia, scientists have designed a machine learning method to model and forecast brief sea-level variations in the coastal regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Image Credit: RUVID. Nature Scientific Reports. Over the past few decades, every ocean basin has undergone considerable warming and sea-level rise induced by climate change. But there are significant regional variations, leading to various processes on different time scales, like those related to temperature changes as a result of natural causes.