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Aug 2, 2023 · The Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound on Sept. 2, 2022. Courtesy Kathleen Lumiere. 1 min. An ocean heat wave has come ashore in the Pacific Northwest. While the world’s oceans have been hitting ...
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, rising sea levels had begun to threaten the low-lying atolls of Micronesia. Caused by the melting of polar ice, higher sea levels are one of many effects of global warming. As sea levels rise, they cause coastal erosion and loss of land. Further, by leaching into the porous coral foundations of atolls ...
May 15, 2024 · Pacific Northeast region (Region 67) is the fourth largest Pacific Ocean fishery and eighth largest in the world producing 3.6% of the global catch or 2,860,000 mt in 2020; this region encompasses the waters north of 40º North latitude and east of 175º West longitude including the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea with the major producers ...
June 24, 2019. State-of-the-art climate models predict that as a result of human-induced climate change, the surface of the Pacific Ocean should be warming — some parts more, some less, but all warming nonetheless. Indeed, most regions are acting as expected, with one key exception: what scientists call the equatorial cold tongue.
Oct 19, 2023 · El Niño is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the “warm phase” of a larger phenomenon called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). La Niña, the “cool phase” of ENSO, is a pattern that describes the unusual cooling of the region’s surface waters.
Jan 26, 2024 · Here one can argue that the reduced ocean MLD acts similarly to low soil moisture conditions for continental heatwaves 20,21: reductions in ocean MLD and soil moisture can both enhance temperature ...
Nov 8, 2017 · People first reached the islands of Micronesia from the Philippines, about 3,500 years ago after an unbroken ocean crossing of 2,300km. It’s an extraordinary achievement when you consider that ...
