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Climate Understanding

To better understand the effects of the ocean on global climate and weather, scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, or PMEL, deployed an Ocean Climate Station mooring — an anchored buoy —on the edge of the warm Agulhas Return Current (ARC) southeast of South Africa. Although there is an array of climate buoys positioned [...]
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Warming Temperatures

The first nine months of 2010 tied with the same period in 1998 for the warmest January-September combined land and ocean surface temperature since 1880. The global combined surface temperature of 58.67 degrees Fahrenheit is 1.17 degrees above the 20th-century average. This link features more details, including which regions were warmer and which regions were [...]
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