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In 1996, a University of Texas post-doctoral fellow, Don Chambers, and colleagues, using TOPEX altimeter data, leaned on
the relationship between ocean temperature and density to infer annual and long-period heat storage rates over the global
oceans. From sea level data for November 1992 to April 1996, he and fellow researchers derived annual heat storage rates,
computed inter-annual changes and averaged data over the Pacific and Atlantic basins. Heat flux determinations from the
team's work show the North Atlantic basin to be warming faster than any of those compared, while the northern Pacific
seems to be cooling. [Source: NASA Earth System Science Data and Services]
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