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- Title
Journal club.
- Authors
Church, John
- Abstract
The article focuses on the significance of designing and implementing an abyssal-water-observing system. The author considered estimating how much oceans are warming and where within them heat is stored as a fascinating challenge. Most studies comparing observations and models of changing ocean temperatures focused on the upper 1 kilometre of water. Greg Johnson and his colleagues shown that the Pacific Ocean's abyssal waters have warmed during the past two decades. It was found out that deep warming is strongest in the south-west Pacific. This indicates that abyssal waters should be considered when estimating sea-level rise and the sensitivity of the climate to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations.
- Subjects
ABYSSAL zone; OCEAN temperature; WATER temperature; DEEP-sea temperature; UNDERWATER exploration; ABSOLUTE sea level change; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN; MARINE sciences
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 452, Issue 7184, p131
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/452131a