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Temperature towards the deep waters

Annual surface temperature  according to oceanographic data in World Ocean Atlas (WOA09)

Annual surface temperature according to oceanographic data in World Ocean Atlas (WOA09).

Oceanographic data are showing hight temperatures in the tropical surface waters. However, the striking geographical differences become less when the measurements are taken in the deeper parts of the water column. Click this link to see a rough picture of how temperature changes towards the deeper layers.

(The animation was made by EW with Reiner Schlitzerands ODV and converted to a Windows Video File.)