{"id":34665,"date":"2017-02-18T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-conditions-in-the-pacific-has-increased-ozone-levels"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:48","slug":"a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-conditions-in-the-pacific-has-increased-ozone-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-conditions-in-the-pacific-has-increased-ozone-levels","title":{"rendered":"A Massive \u2018Blob\u2019 of Abnormal Conditions in the Pacific Has Increased Ozone Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-conditions-in-the-pacific-has-increased-ozone-levels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vast patch of abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean \u2014 nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blob_(Pacific_Ocean)\">the blob<\/a> \u2014 resulted in increased levels of ozone above the Western US, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>The blob \u2014 which at its peak covered roughly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2016\/09\/warm-water-pacific-coast-algae-nino\/\">9 million square kilometres<\/a> (3.5 million square miles) from Mexico to Alaska \u2014 was assumed to be mainly messing with conditions in the ocean, but a new study has shown that it had a lasting affect on air quality too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, it all links back to the blob, which was the most unusual meteorological event we\u2019ve had in decades,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/02\/170215101438.htm\">says one of the team<\/a>, Dan Jaffe from the University of Washington Bothell.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-conditions-in-the-pacific-has-increased-ozone-levels\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-massive-blob-of-abnormal-condi...one-levels<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast patch of abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean \u2014 nicknamed the blob \u2014 resulted in increased levels of ozone above the Western US, researchers have found. The blob \u2014 which at its peak covered roughly 9 million square kilometres (3.5 million square miles) from Mexico to Alaska \u2014 was assumed to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48821,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions\/48821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}