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Risk Of Global Climate Change By BP Oil Spill

DateThursday, July 15, 2010 at 09:05PM

Gianluigi Zangari

Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) - National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)

Frascati 00044, Via E. Fermi, 40, ITALY

Correspondence to: Gianluigi Zangari Email: gianluigi.zangari@lnf.infn.it

Abstract: BP Oil Spill may cause an irreparable damage to the Gulf

Stream global climate thermoregulation activity.

The Gulf Stream importance in the global climate thermoregulation processes is well assessed. The latest real time satellite (Jason, Topex/Poseidon, Geosat Follow-On, ERS-2, Envisat) data maps of May-June 2010 processed by CCAR(Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research), checked at Frascati Laboratories by the means of the SHT congruent calculus past years data, show for the first time a direct evidence of the rapid breaking of the Loop Current, a warm ocean current, crucial part of the Gulf Stream. As displayed both by the sea surface velocity maps and the sea surface height maps, the Loop Current broke down for the first time around May 18 generated a clock wise eddy, which is still active (see Fig. 1).

Real time sea surface heights maps and sea surface velocity maps (below) starting from april 22 until June 9 processed by CCAR and checked at LNF (Frascati) by SHT calculus “Deepwater Horizon”. The yellow arrow indicates the breaking of the Loop Stream.

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