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The Blob is an anomalous body having sea surface temperature much above normal, seen here in a graphic of April 2014 by the NOAA. The Blob is a large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was first detected in late 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.
2 de nov. de 2018 · In 2013, a mysterious pool of warm water developed off of Alaska. This marine heat was so persistent and unusual that it initially defied explanation. The pool lingered in the sub-Arctic Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska through winter, and then quickly expanded south along the Pacific Coast.
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28 de jun. de 2022 · The suffocating, hot blob of water that began in 2013 decimated marine life, killing more than 100 million Pacific cod, thousands of seabirds, and other animals not even accounted for.
Abnormally warm patches of water in the Pacific Ocean, often referred to as 'blobs', have been having a disastrous effect on marine ecosystems since 2010. Now we may know what's causing them to keep appearing.
31 de ene. de 2019 · In late 2013, a huge patch of unusually warm ocean water, roughly one-third the size of the contiguous United States, formed in the Gulf of Alaska and began to spread. A few months later, Nick Bond, a climate scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, dubbed it The Blob.
8 de feb. de 2017 · This map shows anomalously high sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean in May 2015 as compared to the 2002–2012 average. The recent warm-water phenomenon is known as “the Blob.”
28 de feb. de 2020 · Lasting an unprecedented 700 days, the Blob was the longest episode of intense ocean heating – an event scientists call a marine heat wave – ever recorded. Researchers say the Blob appears to have been caused by a combination of several independent factors.
