{"id":179656,"date":"2024-01-02T05:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/brazils-hydrological-wonder-unraveling-the-secrets-of-cabo-frios-cool-waters"},"modified":"2024-01-02T05:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:24:32","slug":"brazils-hydrological-wonder-unraveling-the-secrets-of-cabo-frios-cool-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/brazils-hydrological-wonder-unraveling-the-secrets-of-cabo-frios-cool-waters","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Hydrological Wonder: Unraveling the Secrets of Cabo Frio\u2019s Cool Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brazils-hydrological-wonder-unraveling-the-secrets-of-cabo-frios-cool-waters3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>People have long noticed that the waters around Cabo Frio are unusually cool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When European explorers first surveyed the coastline of what is now the state of Rio de Janeiro in the early 1500s, they encountered white sands, turquoise waters, shallow lagoons, and lush green mountains rising from the sea. The waters in one area, however, were unusually cool\u2014so much so that the promontory in southeastern Brazil shown above was named Cabo Frio, Portuguese for \u201cCape Cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landsat 9\u2019s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) captured this image of Cabo Frio\u2019s diverse coastline on September 16, 2023. The map (below) shows that surface waters that day were cooler off of Cabo Frio than in the surrounding waters. The pattern is common: <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/upwelling.html\">Upwelling<\/a> of cold water from deeper in the ocean to the surface often chills Cabo Frio\u2019s surface waters by several degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have long noticed that the waters around Cabo Frio are unusually cool. When European explorers first surveyed the coastline of what is now the state of Rio de Janeiro in the early 1500s, they encountered white sands, turquoise waters, shallow lagoons, and lush green mountains rising from the sea. The waters in one area, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}