Warming is only on hold until the wind changes

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2956, 2014, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Over the past 20 years, the trade winds that gust westwards across the Pacific have soared to unprecedented strengths. So Matthew England from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and colleagues decided to see what would happen if they factored actual wind levels into the models. They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.