{"668188":{"#nid":"668188","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ocean Heat Is Off the Charts \u2013 Here\u2019s What That Means for Humans and Ecosystems Around the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOcean temperatures have been\u0026nbsp;off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOcean temperatures have been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/climatereanalyzer.org\/clim\/sst_daily\/\u0022\u003Eoff the charts since mid-March 2023\u003C\/a\u003E, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.\u0026nbsp;The sea of Japan is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energyconnects.com\/news\/renewables\/2023\/may\/early-heat-wave-gives-tokyo-a-glimpse-of-a-sweltering-summer\/\u0022\u003Emore than 7 degrees\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. The Indian monsoon, closely tied to conditions in the warm Indian Ocean, has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mausam.imd.gov.in\/responsive\/rainfallinformation.php\u0022\u003Ewell below its expected strength\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;Spain, France, England and the whole Scandinavian Peninsula\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu\/jrc-news-and-updates\/severe-drought-western-mediterranean-faces-low-river-flows-and-crop-yields-earlier-ever-2023-06-13_en\u0022\u003Eare also seeing rainfall far below normal\u003C\/a\u003E, likely connected to an extraordinary marine heat wave in the eastern North Atlantic.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003E Annalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, partially blames El Ni\u00f1o, but underlying everything is global warming \u2014 the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003Econtinuing rising trend\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/533088\/original\/file-20230621-16119-v4sxij.png\u0022\u003Esea surface and land temperatures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the past several decades as human activities have increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2023-06-22 16:06:49","changed_gmt":"2023-06-22 17:35:04","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ocean-heat-is-off-the-charts-heres-what-that-means-for-humans-and-ecosystems-around-the-world-207902","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671013":{"id":"671013","type":"image","title":"49826main_surface_temp_720x720.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMulti-color global heat map from NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1687452945","gmt_created":"2023-06-22 16:55:45","changed":"1687452945","gmt_changed":"2023-06-22 16:55:45","alt":"Multi-color global heat map from NASA.","file":{"fid":"254001","name":"49826main_surface_temp_720x720.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/22\/49826main_surface_temp_720x720.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/22\/49826main_surface_temp_720x720.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":240841,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/22\/49826main_surface_temp_720x720.jpg?itok=uDnhjnwO"}}},"media_ids":["671013"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192546","name":"go-bbiss-inthenews"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"10994","name":"el nino"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}