Blog: A warm pool in the Indo-Pacific Ocean has almost doubled in size, changing global rainfall patterns
Recent NOAA-funded research shows that a large pool of the ocean’s warmest waters, stretching across the Indian and west Pacific Oceans, has grown warmer and almost doubled in size since 1900. This expanding warm pool not only impacts ocean life; according to the study, it is driving changes in the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), a key weather and climate pattern, and in regional rainfall around the globe.