John Roach for National Geographic News Scientists
 have identified a few suspects behind the Earth's sudden weight gain 
around the Equator: glacial melt and shifting ocean mass.
"It is 
quite striking that we are able to explain the [change] with oceans and 
glaciers," said Jean Dickey, a research scientist at NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Both El Niño and PDO 
involve a periodic warming of ocean currents. El Niño effects are 
concentrated primarily in the southern oceans, while PDO is observed in 
the northern.
Dickey's team created a computer model 
of the pressure exerted by the oceans on the Earth in the years before 
and after the El Niño and PDO events and found a pronounced shift in 
oceanic mass towards the Equator, said Dickey.
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