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Global Ocean Climate Change: Observing From Ships

Authors :
Lynne D. Talley
Source :
Frontiers for Young Minds. 9
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Frontiers Media SA, 2021.

Abstract

Have you stood on the beach or crossed the ocean on a plane, wondered at the enormous size of the ocean, and possibly thought about how it regulates our climate? Or how our climate is changing? Or what harm our extra carbon dioxide and heat are causing to life in the ocean? The oceans take up heat from the atmosphere and sun, they change their saltiness as they are either evaporated or rained on, and they exchange gases with the atmosphere, including some of the extra carbon dioxide that humans add to the atmosphere. Ocean currents and mixing carry heat and carbon for tens to hundreds of years, and as they move heat and carbon around, the currents alter the atmosphere above. We only have this knowledge because we have been observing the ocean from ships for a century, adding satellites, and drifting instruments in the last few decades.

Details

ISSN :
22966846
Volume :
9
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Frontiers for Young Minds
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........be201651f7d60e6674e42b6855aaf4cf
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2021.495240