Her team did assume different parts of the ocean would show different amounts of sea level rise, depending on these factors. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
El Nino leftover warm water pools drift into different parts of the oceans and continue to warm for years, an effect not characterized by the ENSO index, but clearly visible in sea surface temperature maps and in the temperature step changes and plateaus following El Ninos. (julesandjames.blogspot.ru)
Different parts of the ocean equilibrate with the atmosphere on different time scales, ranging from a year for the tropical surface ocean to a millennium for the deep sea. (realclimate.org)