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More hurricanes in greener seas?

Wed April 28th, 2010
Morgan Bettex - MIT News Office

 

The swirls of color visible in the waters southeast of Japan's Hokkaido (island in upper left part of image) show where different kinds of phytoplankton are using chlorophyll and other pigments to capture sunlight and produce food. It turns out that phytoplankton affect how deeply sunlight is absorbed by the oceans, which affects how and where tropical cyclones form. Image: NASAResearch suggests ocean color is linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclones. PAOC Director, Kerry Emanuel, speaks to MIT news about a recent paper he has co-authored...

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