Atlantic warming turbocharges Pacific trade winds
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 3 August, 2014
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Rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. This has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001....