heating spanish seas (and the entire planet) don’t give up and the situation starts to enter unknown territory. The waters washing the Iberian Peninsula recorded an alarming record this week. On Monday, April 10, they were 3 degrees Celsius above the normal values for this period, As warned by the Copernicus service, the European Union’s space observation program.
In a post on the social network Twitter, the State Meteorological Service (Aemet) reminded that it recorded a historic temperature record in the sea waters surrounding Spain in 2022. ANDLast year, sea temperatures were the highest since 1940, when the Aemet historical series began.
Actually, More than 94% of days recorded above-average sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean in 2022. Heatwaves in the atmosphere were also repeated at sea in record numbers leading to one of the hottest summers in decades. Far from reversing the situation, the same trend continued into the fall and continued into mid-winter, as the Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM) confirms in their respective quarterly bulletins.
On 11 August last year in the Mediterranean, the Valencia buoy reached 29.62 ºC that day, an all-time high at this point, according to the Levante newspaper from Prensa Ibérica. The previous record was reached on August 7, 2015 with 28.65 ºC. Confirmed the increasing tropicalization of the Mediterranean What do experts warn about?
Above 30º in the Mediterranean
As the Alicante Climatological Laboratory has pointed out for some time, the Valencia coast has become a real “broth”. Something Leads to temperatures above 30º in many parts of the Mediterranean. The warming detected in the deepest layers is a dangerous combination synonymous with a loss of comfort in the Mediterranean coastal areas that CEAM impacted a few weeks ago.
The strong marine heat wave observed in the Mediterranean both in the summer and autumn of 2022 continued in December and part of January.. The values detected were considerably higher than the climatological values and remained very high in almost the entire basin in February, although they decreased gradually. In fact, records at many points reached 18º C. Record anomalies that nearly doubled the second value in the seasonally adjusted historical series.
alarm signal all over the planet
NOAA (United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), published on its official page a few days ago. sea temperature exceeded 21 degrees Celsius. “Oceans enter unknown territory”, Alert meteorologists and climatologists from around the world.
The unstoppable process causing ocean temperatures to rise is climate change. What is happening now is nothing but a new confirmation of its effects.
More than forty years have passed since the average temperature of the oceans did not reach such high figures, and This time he broke all records. If this continues, the accumulating warming in the oceans Even if emissions are cut, it will continue to warm the atmosphere for decades.
Also, it hasand to account for a phenomenon called ‘El Niño’ that will bring more heat globally this summer.. If the ‘El Niño’ causes an abnormal rise in seawater temperature, this year it will do so in a sea that has broken all records.
‘El Niño’ is the name used to refer to the Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It is a natural phenomenon in the central and eastern parts of the equatorial Pacific, characterized by fluctuations in ocean temperatures associated with changes in the atmosphere. This phenomenon has a great impact on climatic conditions in various parts of the world.
Meteorologist Francisco Martín warns The consequences of all this are unpredictable., because they had not worked with models of heat accumulation at sea at such high temperatures”. “The heat that builds up in the seawater has to get out somehow, and it does this in the form of extreme weather events.”
According to many experts, the source of the problem comes from CO2 emissions, which have increased significantly rather than decreased in recent years.. In fact, a few weeks ago the previous maximum records for anthropogenic CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere were broken.
“The atmosphere is getting warmer and this heat is being transferred to the top 100 meters of the ocean basins, It is the depth of reference that is the most warming globally,” warns climatologist Jorge Olcina of the University of Alicante.
…….
Contact address of the environment department: [email protected]