On both satellite images,
particularly warm surface waters are illustrated in red and white, while normal ocean conditions are illustrated in green.
Not exact matches
Snorkeling is possible in almost any body of
water, but snorkelers are most likely to be found in locations where there are minimal waves,
warm water, and something
particularly interesting to see near the
surface — exactly like the Cayman Islands!
According to McLean and Foster, this predominance of
warm surface waters in the Pacific has heated the Earth,
particularly in the NH, and generated a rather abrupt upturn in global
warming after 1976.
The
particularly rapid sea ice loss from 1997 to 2007 was related to extreme ocean conditions that drove a sustained
warming of the
surface waters throughout the subpolar Atlantic and Nordic Seas.
Forecasters are increasingly confident in a
particularly big El Niño this time around because, deep below the Pacific Ocean's
surface, off - the - charts
warm water is lurking:
Based on discussions with my colleagues Rong Zhang and Mike Winton, this seems to be a consequence of an AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) which builds in strength when the aerosol cooling is strong, trying to balance a part of the cooling at the
surface with
warm waters advected in from the tropics, but also — by a process that is not
particularly straightforward — cools the subsurface
waters.