New Study: 1979-2013 Southern Ocean And Southeast Pacific Cooling Driven By…Warming?
By Kenneth Richard on 1. July 2024
Scientists attempt to explain why approximately one-third of the global ocean’s sea surface temperatures cooled since the late 1970s.
The 50-70°S Southern Ocean and 160°W to 80°W southeastern Pacific cooled by about -0.35°C (-0.117°C per decade) from 1979-2013 (Yao et al., 2024). (The cooling also continued to 2019, but the authors chose to use 2013 as their end point.)
In the paper the scientists expend a great deal of effort to “argue” that warming in the North Atlantic forced 35+ years of cooling from 50 to 70°S and 160°W to 80°W.
“We argue that North Atlantic warming is decisive for driving the observed multidecadal SST cooling of the southeastern Pacific sector.”
However, they simultaneously acknowledge both (a) internal variability and (b)
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