High salinities in the Atlantic and low salinities in the Pacific are critical ocean features, impacting ocean circulations and climate. Here, using observational data, we reveal that the Atlantic–Pacific salinity contrast has amplified during the past half-century. Notably, in the 0–800m, ...
and Rimbu, N.: The impact of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies on the North Atlantic multidecadal variability, 2007.Grosfeld, K., G. Lohmann, and N. Rimbu, 2008: The impact of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies on the North Atlantic ...
Observational data suggest a dramatic increase in the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans over the course of the past half-century. Ocean dynamical processes driven by winds and warming, in addition to surface freshwater fluxes, mak
Pacific OceanPacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean of the world and covers more than 30% of the Earth's surface.The name 'Pacific' come from the Latin word 'pacificus' which means peaceful. Thus, Pacific Ocean means 'peaceful ocean'. ...
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans are each shown as a longitude line between the southernmost point of a continent (South America, Africa, and Australia, respectively) and the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean. ...
3. Size: How big is the Atlantic Ocean? The Atlantic is the world’s second largest ocean and covers more than 20% of the Earth’s surface. It is the second largest ocean of the five world oceans and is thus smaller than the Pacific Ocean. ...
Links to sea surface temperature data in the Atlantic basin. Also includes links to buoy and ship observations.
El Nino, a weather system that forms from warm ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, increases vertical wind shear, lessening or breaking up tropical storms. "If a robust El Niño does not develop, the potential for an active Atlantic hurricane season still ...
Pacific. A rapid and synchronous change in the atmospheric and oceanic circulations was observed in the North Pacific during the late 1990s. The change was driven by the transbasin influence from the Atlantic Ocean. During the positive phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) since the...
The large-scale ocean circulation has been invoked to explain long term North Atlantic centennial to decadal property changes23; a weaker MOC is associated with decreased ocean heat transport convergence and reduced SPNA heat storage and basin-wide sea surface temperature24,25,26. There is evidence...