Credit: NIES

Caption: Observed sea surface temperatures in August over the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The white boxes are the region focused on in this new study. The COBE SST2 dataset from JMA-MRI is used.

August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. A new study led by National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) researchers revealed that this warming record could not happen without human-induced climate changes. The northwestern Pacific sea surface becomes warm seasonally around August every year. However, it was unprecedentedly high in August 2020, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Nation...

Keywords: Climate Change, Earth Science, Atmospheric Science,

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