Tuesday May 6, 2025
PhysOrg —
A new study involving the University of Liverpool reveals striking temperature shifts across both the oceans and the atmosphere, using an extended version of the now-iconic climate stripes visualization.
Published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the research demonstrates consistent warming patterns in the upper oceans and lower atmosphere (troposphere), with the warmest years recorded in the past decade.
The visualization uses a blue-to-red striped pattern—known as the Climate Stripes—to communicate the progression of global warming over time.
Professor Ric Williams, from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, contributed to the ocean component of the study.