ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a ScienceNews article on the disappearance of phytoplankton from the Indian Ocean. The piece, which referenced Murtugudde’s recently co-authored study published in Geophysical Research Letters, details the ecological threat posed by rapid loss of phytoplankton.
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
