The Ocean Has a Fever

Decades of gradual warming due to human-caused climate change and an El Niño in the Pacific Ocean nudged global sea surface temperatures to record levels in 2023.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project. Video by NASA’s Scientific Visualization studio, using data from the MUR project. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 25, 2023
Data acquired August 21, 2023

Sources:

Aqua > AMSR-E

Aqua > MODIS

In situ Measurement

NOAA-15 POES > AVHRR

NOAA-18 POES > AVHRR

NOAA-19 POES > AVHRR

Terra > MODIS