This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.
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These include Guam, in the Pacific Ocean, and Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
As an Officer of the U.S. Navy for thirty-six years, his initiatives contributed directly to the economic stability and humanitarian understanding in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.
By the end of March 2008 thirty-five micro-projects led by youth for youth in the Caribbean, Pacific and AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea) regions had been implemented.
The answer may lie in the Indian Ocean, which also influences monsoon patterns, rather than in the Pacific, and there is some evidence that the Indian Ocean was indeed cooler during the 18th-century drought.
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Simulated tsunami exercises have been organized previously in the Pacific in 2008 and in the Indian Ocean in 2009.
We believe that all small states of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific can now make some concrete provision against natural disaster to which global warming may sadly make them even more vulnerable.
This time, however, a total eclipse will be visible in a thin strip from Iran to the Pacific ocean, cutting through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Since then, bulletins have been issued to 28 Indian Ocean nations by the Japan Meteorological Agency and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
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