Dry Tortugas National Park is a cluster of small, isolated islands at an important marine crossroads: the Florida Straits, where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Combining these two corals records with three other Dry Tortugas coral cores that stretch back to 1733, the team was able to track 278 years worth of sea surface temperatures.
The Dry Tortugas corals show that after a cold spell during the 1960s, sea surface temperatures in the region have warmed by about 1 degrees Fahrenheit between 1970 and 2012. This suggests that there is a close connection between sea temperatures in the area around the Dry Tortugas and the larger AMO. By looking at sea surface temperatures in the Dry Tortugas, climatologists may be able to predict imminent changes that will affect the entire North Atlantic basin, Flannery said. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125091717.htm
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