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🌊The European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) is making strides! The Digital Ocean Forum 2024 on 13 June marked an important milestone for the #EUDTO, as the European Commission, Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and the @vlizostend - Flanders Marine Institute unveiled the pre-operational platform. The event featured a live demonstration in the presence of European Commission representatives, scientific officers and civil society organisations, underscoring the collaborative nature of the project.  A powerful tool for science-driven decision-making, the #EUDTO will represent a significant leap forward in our ability to monitor, predict, and understand Ocean dynamics, helping to drive sustainable Ocean management. As a flagship initiative of the EC's Mission Restore Our Ocean and Waters, the EU DTO supports the EU Green Deal and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The platform is set to gradually scale up throughout 2025. The...

By Greg Brosnan, BBC News Climate and Science     A billboard shows the temperature on 5 June in Phoenix, Arizona Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US southwest, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave was concentrated in southwest states including California, Nevada and Arizona. Extreme temperatures in Mexico also claimed lives during the period. The scientists said that such a heatwave was now four times more likely than it was in 2000, driven by planet-warming emissions. Such attribution studies take some time to complete, so it's too soon for scientists to say how much of a role climate change is playing in the current heatwave stretching from the centre to the northeast of the US and into Canada. Experts say many extreme weather events including heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense as a re...

This TimelapseTuesday, we’re looking at sea surface temperatures.  As meteorological summer approached, NOAA’s GOES East satellite watched the Gulf of Mexico heat up. We can even see the warm “loop current” from the Caribbean Sea flowing into the Gulf Stream in this visualization from April 9 to May 29, 2024. Loop current images * #GOESEast #GOES16 #Satellite #Satellites #Imagery #SatelliteImagery #Ocean #Current #LoopCurrent #SeaSurfaceTemperature #Heat #Caribbean #GulfStream #Earth #Timelapse #TimelapseVideo

June 1 marked the start of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean. And as Earth’s climate changes, hurricanes are changing too. 🌀 Hurricanes are not becoming more frequent during the official season, which lasts from June 1 to November 30; however, when they do form, hurricanes are more likely to become much stronger (Category 4 or 5) in a warmer world. Tropical cyclones are also becoming slower and wetter. As oceans warm, hurricanes are more likely to undergo rapid intensification – when wind speeds increase by 35+ mph in 24 hours. Sea level rise is also worsening storm surge from hurricanes, increasing coastal flood risk during storms. Image description: Satellite image of Hurricane Lee, a large storm with a spiral of puffy white clouds, taken on September 12, 2023. Below is the blue water of the Atlantic Ocean. To the left, the green land of the southeast U.S., Florida, and Cuba are visible. Batten down the hatches, hurricane season is here! High winds, coas...