Satellite data showed that California coastal winds weakened enough to prevent cold upwelling water from breaking through the warm surface water during the Pacific 'Blob', even though ocean-buoy pressure data appeared to show normal wind behavior.
Sources
- A Striking New View of the Pacific 'Blob' (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/feature-articles/blob (earthdata.nasa.gov)
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL071039 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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