An increased climate has started altering global currents all over the world but has recently speeded up even faster than ever before. Global warming has affected the earth for centuries. However, today it affects the ocean’s currents, with each moving too much water than all of the earth’s rivers are doing combined. Now it is considered to be the world’s circulatory system as the circulation has started thumping faster.
For the past 25 years, currents have become very rapid, according to a paper published in Science Advances. The evidence compiled suggests that between 1990 and 2013, energy currents have increased, and up to 15% in the past decade. It is a massive increase, which could start affecting weather patterns, jet streams, as well as the quantity of heat that is store in the deepest depths of the oceans.
An Indicative but Indefinite Study
According to oceanographers, climate warming has affected ocean circulation. However, thus far, these observations haven’t shown a trend that could indicate what’s to come in the future. Oceanographers like Hu Shijian from the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Oceanology is a lead author of this specific study. He is specifically studying the Kuroshio Current in Eastern Asia, which seems stable for now, along with Agulhas in South Africa, which on the other hand has broadened. The Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf Stream seems as though it has weakened. It is indicated by the Arctic that is melting slowly and sinking salty water into the North Atlantic. The Pacific Ocean’s currents also seem to remain stable for now.
Although there is no direct way to measure currents around the world, scientists are continuing to reanalyze them differently to conclude a study of thereof. They are also studying the atmosphere with the use of computer modeling data – this will help them to generate a global picture of what’s happening to all the currents simultaneously in the world.
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