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pscot

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Fri Apr 19, 2013, 07:01 PM Apr 2013

Interesting graphic of ocean heat

The dark blue reperesents unusually cold sea surface temps. Cold water is flooding the seas around Antarctica as summer ends at the South Pole.



Sea surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean (above). El Niño is characterized by unusually warm temperatures and La Niña by unusually cool temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Anomalies (below) represent deviations from normal temperature values, with unusually warm temperatures shown in red and unusually cold anomalies shown in blue.

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Interesting graphic of ocean heat (Original Post) pscot Apr 2013 OP
I only see the first image - basic temperature muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 #1
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