The warmer the water, the more the atmosphere heats up. This spring, for the first time since measurements began, the upwelling current in the Gulf of Panama failed to occur. This current brings cold, nutrient-rich deep water to the sea surface. This has had a significant impact on the ecosystem. However, researchers are puzzling over the reasons for its absence, as well as whether this will remain a one-off event or whether it is a harbinger of changes in other ocean currents.<\/p>\n
Climate researcher Ralf Schiebel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry is also concerned with this occurrence. Aboard the 22-metre sailing yacht\u202fEugen Seibold, custom-built by YYachts as a research vessel, he and his team investigate the role of the oceans in the climate system and the effects of global warming. He assumes that an El Ni\u00f1o originates in the ocean. The aim of the work, Schiebel explains, is \u201cto collect as much data and as many samples as possible in order to describe the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon as comprehensively and broadly as possible. We collect biological, chemical and physical data, such as CO\u2082 concentrations in the atmosphere and the ocean, to understand how all of this is interconnected.\u201d Thanks to the use of the research yacht, complete data sets on the climate phenomenon are now available for the first time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aboard the 22-metre sailing yacht\u202fEugen Seibold, custom-built by YYachts as a research vessel, Climate researcher Ralf Schiebel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and his team investigate the role of the oceans in the climate system and the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-models"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n