Wednesday, February 28, 2018

First evidence of surprising ocean warming around Galápagos corals

02/28/2018 09:43 AM EST

a coral head

A new analysis of the natural temperature archives stored in coral reefs shows the ocean around the Galápagos Islands has been warming since the 1970s. The finding surprised the research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming. Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific.


Full story at https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/first-evidence-ocean-warming-around-gal-pagos-corals

Source
University of Arizona


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