COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Coral Records Show Ocean Thermocline Rise With Global Warming
Description: Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water traceable to recent global warming. The finding is the first real evidence supporting what climate modelers have been predicting as the effects of global climate change on the subsurface ocean circulation. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117949
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Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 10/6/2010
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