The trend is altering the water cycle in ways that lead to extreme weather events.
, indicates that ocean warming is leading to widespread changes throughout the sea, with salty areas getting saltier and fresh regions of the ocean getting fresher.The two-dozen researchers involved in the study found that the vertical slice of the ocean from 0 to 2,000 meters deep gained about 10 zettajoules of heat between 2021 and 2022.
This heat is equal to about 100 times the world’s electricity generation in 2021, according to a statement.Warmer waters are also tied to stronger, wetter hurricanes, heat waves, droughts and heavy precipitation events, studies show. Ocean warming is altering the basics of the hydrological cycle, allowing storms to pick up more moisture that then gets wrung out over land, and changing atmospheric circulation in ways that favor extreme events.
For example, study co-author Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research said warm waters in the Indian Ocean helped lead to both record heat in Pakistan and parts of India last year, as well as theSimilarly, the ongoing atmospheric river events in California are being made worse by warm ocean temperatures in parts of the Pacific Ocean, Trenberth told Axios via email.
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