Global heating supercharging Indian Ocean Climate System

This site chooses to share this article from The Guardian because it explains why the Indian Ocean is heating faster than other oceans. For Mauritius, this means warmer ocean seas, potentially more coral bleaching events, increased risks of storm surges and coastal inundations, as well as flash floods.
“While ocean currents and winds in the Atlantic and Pacific can disperse heating water, the large Asian landmass to the north of the Indian Ocean makes it particularly susceptible to retaining heat. “It’s quite different to the tropical Atlantic and tropical Pacific events. There you have you have steady easterly trade winds. In the Indian Ocean that’s not the case,” Ummenhofer said.””
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/19/global-heating-supercharging-indian-ocean-dipole-climate-system?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1-D1HfK_i_ElISER4brJ5FXulv0r4dkWsxja1pp2GVaPxTznsBUdiSJbE#Echobox=1574170930

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