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The Pacific Ocean Is Doing Something Weird as It Warms: Young Water Gets Older, And Old Water Gets Younger

Researchers say warming will slow Pacific mixing unevenly, making some upper thermocline waters older and others younger over the next century.

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Global warming is changing the circulation of water in the Pacific Ocean in unusual ways. Scientists have discovered why water is "aging" in some ...

Global warming is changing the circulation of water in the Pacific Ocean in an unusual way. Scientists have found out why in some regions water “ages”, and in others

A new study suggests that climate change may be altering the age of water bodies in the Pacific Ocean, with 'young' water becoming 'older' and 'old' water becoming 'younger'.

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It has not yet been clear exactly how climate change will manifest itself in different regions of the ocean, but a new study shows that in the Pacific it has caused something strange.

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