Thus, during an El - Nino, much of the heat content of the Indo - Pacific
warm pool moves from being too deep for surface measurements to detect, to being spread out on the surface of the ocean, where surface measurements can detect it.
Not exact matches
But recently it has become more frequent — for the first time on record it has returned for a fourth consecutive year — and at the same time a giant
pool of unusually
warm water has settled down in the middle of the Pacific and is showing no signs of
moving.
A
pool of
warm water (in red) is
moving east in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
At the same time, the
warm surface waters collect more heat from the atmosphere as they
move further westward, and form a
warm pool near New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines.
Very few complaints in that the bathroom was small and hard to
move around in and the
pool was like a bathtub rather than a
pool in that it was very
warm, but everything was clean and well taken care of.
Figure 15 - A has shown the global pacing by the El Niños (and their tele - connections) of the temperature changes of the lower troposphere as function of both time and latitude; this pacing may be due to the coming to the surface, at high latitudes, of
warm water from the Pacific
warm pool, as they
move to higher latitudes on the western rim of the oceans after an El Niño.
The
pool of water in a
warm - core ring can extend to a depth of 1500 m (4900 ft) so that they can not
move onto continental shelves, which are shallow typically 200 m (650 ft) deep or less.
A
pool of
warm water (in red) is
moving east in the tropical Pacific Ocean.