Climate: the structure of the ocean is changing
Audio 48:30
Coral in the Pacific.
(Illustrative image).
© Anne-Cécile Bras/RFI
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
The ocean stores and redistributes enormous amounts of heat around the globe through sea currents, but climate change is upsetting these balances at the surface and at depth.
For example, the Gulf Stream, this marine current which moderates the European climate is slowing down.
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Report by
Samuel Turpin
in the Arctic Oceans with oceanographer
Cédric Courson
and the
Unu Mondo Expedition team
Guest:
Jean-Baptiste Sallée,
CNRS researcher at the Oceanography and Climate Laboratory.
(Rebroadcast from October 21, 2021)
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