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Watery Heatwave Cooks the Gulf of Maine

Extreme water temperatures in 2018 fit with a much longer trend in the region, which is among the fastest-warming parts of the global ocean.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, and sea surface temperature data from Coral Reef Watch. Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published September 12, 2018
Data acquired August 8, 2018

Sources:
EUMETSAT > Metop-B
GOES
Meteosat
Suomi NPP > VIIRS