Climate: the structure of the ocean is changing

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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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