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New Study: Heat is Being Stored Beneath the Ocean Surface

Examining temperatures from the depths of the ocean, JPL scientists have found that lower layers of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans grew much warmer during a decade when surface temperatures cooled.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, based on a 2015 paper by Nieves et al. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published July 10, 2015
Data acquired 2003 - 2012

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