Mysterious Ocean ‘Cold Blob’ Baffles Scientists — and It’s an Ominous Sign
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New research links the unusual cooling patch to reduced ocean heat transport and possible climate risk.
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Most of the world’s oceans have warmed as global temperatures rise, but one patch of the North Atlantic has moved in the opposite direction. The area, south of Greenland and Iceland, is often called the “cold blob” or “warming hole” because it has resisted the broader heating trend around it.
For years, scientists debated whether the anomaly was caused mainly by weather and surface cooling or by something deeper in the ocean system. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters now points strongly toward a weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as AMOC, making the cold patch more than a strange map feature.