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Warm Water and Strange Weather May Be Connected

Temperature anomalies in the eastern Pacific Ocean are both influencing and being influenced by unusual weather patterns. The effects are rippling through the marine environment.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using MOI-SST data from Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published April 18, 2015
Data acquired March 2015

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2