CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON OCEAN 

By Khushi thakur jUNE 28, 2024

NASA Visualization

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This NASA visualization depicts the sea surface temperature where the ocean hotter region is shown with red and orange colours. The cool region is shown in blues.

Warming Ocean

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Warming Ocean

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According to NASA, around 90 % of global warming heat is absorbed by the ocean resulting in the temperature rise.

Green Ocean

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This is the satellite image of the ocean taken from PACE’s Ocean Color Instrument through which two different communities of microscopic marine organisms in the ocean were identified in South Africa on February 2024.

Phytoplankton

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The ocean is getting green due to the presence of phytoplankton for the past 20 years.

Cyclones

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Oceans warming up are contributing to the rapid cyclones at a speed of 35+ mph in 24 hours of time period.

Thining Ice

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Both pole's ice is melting due to the high temperature. Warmer oceans are melting ice from below.

Global Sea level 2023

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By 4 inches global sea level rose and this is the graph from 1992 to 2023 depicting the rise in sea level.

Temperature Visualization

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This visualization is of NASA depicting temperature of the ocean where warmer hues such as red, orange, and yellow indicate higher temperatures, while cooler shades like green and blue.

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Our planet Earth is covered with 70% water, and the ocean plays a huge role in the climate change of Earth but human activities such as greenhouse gases and global warming are impacting the planer negatively.