Greenhouse gases affect the Earth’s water body, as NASA visualizes the ocean. Taking to Instagram, he shared a visualization showing sea level flux based on NASA’s Climate Change, Assessment of Ocean Circulation and Climate, Phase II Model (ECCO2). In the paper, the space agency wrote that human emissions are changing the oceans. “Our oceans are changing,” the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a statement.
“Covering 70% of the planet’s surface, the ocean is an important driver of the Earth’s global climate. However, increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are changing the ocean before our eyes. NASA and its partners want to learn more,” said NASA further.
Also, detailing the visualization, NASA says that the different colors represent the average temperature for ocean surface currents. “Warmer colors (red, orange and yellow) represent warmer weather and cooler colors (green and blues) represent cooler weather,” he said.
NASA shared the visualization a day later. It has since garnered over 13,000 likes. Social media users reacted to the post with several comments.
“Can you explain what this data shows? Is it day or month? What time of year? Ocean currents or ocean temperature? What conclusions can we draw from this data?” asked one user. NASA replied: “Visualization shows sea surface currents. Currents are colored by sea surface temperature data. This particular visualization is from 2007-2008.”
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“The data and visualizations are amazing. Really cool!” said one user. “Climate change is a huge problem,” he said.