Photo: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian This image shows the rise in water temperatures in the northeast Pacific Ocean from 1996 to 2021 (Pacific warming pool). Measurements are provided in Celsius (rise per decade). The white outline stands for the marine heat wave 2019-2021 that lies in the warming pool region.
Photo: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian This image shows the rise in water temperatures in the northeast Pacific Ocean from 1996 to 2021 (Pacific warming pool). Measurements are provided in Celsius (rise per decade). The white outline stands for the marine heat wave 2019-2021 that lies in the warming pool region. A team of researchers in the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) has just discovered a long-term, ever-warming pool of warm water. It measures 3 million square kilometers, can be traced back to human-induced rise in greenhouse gases, and provides favorable conditions for extreme heat waves in the northeast Pacific. Dr. Armineh Barkhordarian now reveals in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment that this pool cannot be explained by naturally occurring climate fluctuations; it is caused by humans.
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