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Graph's Effect On Water Temperature

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Graph 1 suggests that, during the 2002-03 El Niño event, the water temperature at 50 and at 100 meters below sea surface remained similar from July 18 to September 29 of 2002; however, the water temperature at 100 meters below the surface was slightly colder. After that date range, the water temperature at 100 meters below the surface decreased by ≈5 °C while the temperature at 50 meters below the surface remained constant throughout the entire length of time. The water temperature at 200 meters below the surface remained colder than at 50 and 100 meters below sea level and continued to decrease at a gentle slope from July 18 to December 5, by ≈5 °C. A temperature increase of ≈2 °C was observed from December 5 to January 16.

As indicated by Graph 2, the water temperatures at 50 and 100 meters below sea level differed by ≈4±1 °C from each other, and decreased at similar slopes. The temperature at 100 meters below sea level remained colder than that at a 50-meter deepth. The water temperature at 200 meters below sea level remained ≈10±2 °C lower than that of the other two depth temperatures. From August 1 to August 15, the temperatures at 50, 100, and 200-meter depths remained mostly constant with no more than ≈1°C variations. A second consistency between the three depths was that all three graphs have positive slopes, from September 12 to September 26, which became negative from September 26 to October 10. In this time range, the …show more content…

The water temperature at 200 meters below sea level ranged between 18 and 20 °C throughout the entire time range. The water temperatures at the three depths had an approximately constant temperature from October 24 to November

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