The weather this summer has been crazy. We have been experiencing an environmental dynamic for a few years now in which experience record temperatures It is normal. One day it hails and the next there is a warning for high temperatures. Environmental phenomena become more extreme and difficult to predict. And the only ones to blame are Global warming and the humans who fuel it.
He rising ocean temperatures It is also a phenomenon that carries worrying the scientific community for some years now. There are many threats to the world’s ecosystems if ocean temperatures rise. Rising sea levels or the arrival of invasive species are some of the many consequences of a rise in the Celsius level. This summer, temperatures of over 30 °C have been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. But what many scientists did not expect is the extreme drop in temperature in a region of the Atlantic.
The Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean was named after the Ancient Greek Civilizations named after one of the titans who challenged the gods. The titan known as Atlas He was punished by Zeus and condemned to support the columns that support the sky. Although it is a mythological story, some analogies can be drawn with the current climate situation. The Atlantic Ocean is the youngest ocean, the most studied and one of those with more climatic importance in Europe and Africa. If the currents of this ocean were disturbedas some studies already show, a situation of Climate instability and catastrophe around the world. The Titan’s survival is necessary to live under the skies it sustains.
The global trend of rising ocean temperatures is being challenged by a thermal anomaly in a rAtlantic regionIt is a phenomenon that scientists cannot yet fully explain, although there are many hypotheses. The North Atlantic region has recorded extremely hot temperatures this yearBut the climatic exception that is currently being warned about is the rapid and pronounced drop in temperatures in the equatorial Atlantic regionAlthough the decline may seem positive, in this case it has the opposite effect.
The Atlantic Girl
The region that worries scientists the most is a narrow corridor along the equator near the African coast. Although the northern waters are overheated, in the equatorial -central- region they are between 1980 and 1990. 0.5 ºC and 1 ºC below average. This is an unusual pattern, but it is reminiscent of the climatic phenomenon of The Girl. This is why this phenomenon has been named ‘The Atlantic Girl’.
La Niña occurs when temperatures in the Eastern Pacific Ocean throughout the equator west of South America descend at least 0.5ºC below normal. During The Childthe same region is heats up. These temperature changes may seem small, but they can affect the atmosphere in ways that impact the entire planet.. This phenomenon on a smaller scale It is being translated for the first time in the Atlantic Ocean and is creating new ocean dynamics.
The problem with cooling
A rise or fall of half a degree in the temperature of the equatorial ocean does not seem to have very serious consequences at first glance. But in reality this difference in temperature has significant implications that could remind you of butterfly effect. A small change at the beginning of a system can generate chaotic results.
Las consequences that may have this temperature fluctuation are related to the the emergence of more extreme adverse weather events and the alteration of precipitation patterns. It could help the appearance of Hurricanes never before seen in the Atlantic. It could also alter precipitation patterns on surrounding continents, affecting from the Sahel region in Africa to northeastern South America.
