From his sunny conference room five floors above a blue inlet of the Gulf of Finland, Nokia's chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, can't help crowing.

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The latest sea-surface height measurements reveal unusually cool water (shown as blue and purple) and sea levels that are two to seven inches below normal, extending from the Gulf of Alaska along the coast of North America.

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