Not exact matches
Ocean Only: The August
global sea surface temperature was 1.17 °F (0.65 °C) above the 20th century average of 61.4 °F (16.4 °C), the highest on
record for August.
Ocean Only: The June - August
global sea surface temperature was 1.13 °F (0.63 °C), above the 20th century average of 61.5 °F (16.4 °C), the highest for June - August on
record.
The average
global sea surface temperature tied with 2010 as the second highest for January — August in the 135 - year period of
record, behind 1998, while the average land
surface temperature was the fifth highest.
Here, we report on local and
global changes in MHW characteristics over time as
recorded by satellite and in situ measurements of
sea surface temperature (SST) and defined using a quantitative MHW framework, which allows for comparisons across regions and events1.
The oceans are heating up: Not only was Earth's
temperature record warm in 2014, but so were the
global oceans, as
sea surface temperatures and the heat of the upper oceans also hit
record highs.
In August
global sea surface temperatures reached
record levels — the average
temperature was 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average.
For the oceans, the November
global sea surface temperature was 0.84 °C (1.51 °F) above the 20th century average of 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the highest for November on
record, surpassing the previous
record set last year by 0.20 °C (0.36 °F).
The June globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.39 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.5 °F — the highest
global ocean
temperature for June in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.05 °F.
The May globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.37 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.3 °F — the highest
global ocean
temperature for May in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.09 °F.
The April globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.44 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 60.9 °F — the highest
global ocean
temperature for April in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.25 °F and besting 1998, the last time a similar strength El Niño occurred, by 0.43 °F.
The July globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.42 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.5 °F — the highest
global ocean
temperature for July in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.07 °F.
The September globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.33 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.1 °F, tying with 2014 as the second highest
global ocean
temperature for September in the 1880 — 2016
record, behind 2015 by 0.16 °F.
Remember also that the US is only about 2 % of the globe and the
global surface record corresponds closely with satellite measurements of the lower troposhere, and also the
sea surface temperatures show a strikingly similar pattern of warming.
Using monthly - averaged
global satellite
records from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability of long - term cloud measurements.
Coincidentally NCDC reports the joint warmest August
global sea surface temperatures on
record.
This February's
sea surface temperatures were 1.46 degrees above average, which means the past nine months have been the nine highest monthly
global ocean
temperature departures on
record.
Indeed, many of the groups using weather station
records for estimating
global temperature trends, also combine their estimates with the
sea surface temperature records to construct «land - and -
sea»
global temperature estimates.
When sceptics look at statistical data, whether it is recent ice melt, deep
sea temperatures, current trend in
global surface temperatures, troposphere
temperatures, ice core
records etc. they look at the data as it is without any pre-conceptions and describe what it says.
«With very high
sea surface temperatures that have a strong
global warming component, these flooding events break
records, and cause untold damage,» he says.
Two key climate change indicators —
global surface temperatures and Arctic
sea ice extent — have broken numerous
records through the first half of 2016.
The
global record for these only goes back to 1850, in particular the result of subtracting HadSST2 (Hadley
sea surface temperature) from CRUTEM3 (Climate Research Unit land
temperature).
Ocean warming: «Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous
sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the
surface warming hiatus» «A review of
global ocean
temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»
Tapster, Dan, 167 Tata Steel Corporation, 44 Taylor, Mitch, 137 Taylor, Richard, 107 - 108
Temperature,
global, 10, 14, 16, 47 - 48, 51, 53, 55 - 56, 58 - 69, 79 - 80, 86 - 87, 89 - 92, 94, 97 - 99, 101, 105 - 108, 110, 120, 133, 135 - 136, 140, 147, 159 - 160, 162, 169, 180, 182, 239 - 240, 242, 246 proxy, 58, 60, 64, 66, 69, 76, 159 - 160
record (data), 145, 147 - 153, 160 - 161, 169
sea surface (SST), 58 - 62, 68 - 69, 116 - 118, 139, 238, 240 Texas A & M University, 167 Texas Tech University, 116 The Book of Icelanders, 56 The Chilling Stars, 96 The Climate Crisis, 120 The Foundation Center, 175 The Guardian, 124 The New York Times, 103, 105 The Population Bomb, 32 The Weather Makers, 10 TNO Management Consultants, 22 Tornado, 114 - 116, 119 - 120, 125, 240 Trenberth, Kevin, 67, 119, 162 - 163, 170, 238 Trent University, 156 Troposphere, 89 - 91, 96, 105 Tunesia, 157 Turner, Jonathan, 28 Turner, Ted, 33 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 35, 167 - 168, 225
The
global temperature records use a blend of air and
sea -
surface temperatures, while
global average
temperatures from climate models typically use just air
temperatures.
Carbon Brief produced a raw
global temperature record using using unadjusted ICOADS sea surface temperature measurements gridded by the UK Hadley Centre and raw land temperature measurements assembled by NOAA in version 4 of the Global Historical Climatological Network (
global temperature record using using unadjusted ICOADS
sea surface temperature measurements gridded by the UK Hadley Centre and raw land
temperature measurements assembled by NOAA in version 4 of the
Global Historical Climatological Network (
Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN).
Envisat's Advanced Along - Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR)
records global ground and
sea surface temperature.
Figure 13 appears to imply that 6 % of each El Niño and La Niña event remains within the
global surface temperature record and that it is this cumulative effect of ENSO events that raises and lowers global Sea Surface Temper
surface temperature record and that it is this cumulative effect of ENSO events that raises and lowers
global Sea Surface Temper
Surface Temperatures.
Based on proxy
records from ice, terrestrial and marine archives, the LIG is characterized by an atmospheric CO2 concentration of about 290 ppm, i.e., similar to the pre-industrial (PI) value13, mean air
temperatures in Northeast Siberia that were about 9 °C higher than today14, air
temperatures above the Greenland NEEM ice core site of about 8 ± 4 °C above the mean of the past millennium15, North Atlantic
sea -
surface temperatures of about 2 °C higher than the modern (PI)
temperatures12, 16, and a
global sea level 5 — 9 m above the present
sea level17.
Because the GISS analysis combines available
sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices for the ocean data, showing that
global temperature change is sensitive to estimated
temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.
«Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous
sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the
surface warming hiatus» «A review of
global ocean
temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»
The period of increased warming from 1987 to 1997 loosely coincided with the divergence of the
global average
temperature anomalies over land, which are derived from observation station
recordings, and the
global average anomalies in
sea surface temperatures.
The
global average
sea -
surface temperature, which set a
record last year, is likely to equal or surpass that
record in 2015.
However you slice it, lolwot, there is a current «pause» (or «standstill») in the warming of the «globally and annually averaged land and
sea surface temperature anomaly» (used by IPCC to measure «
global warming»), despite unabated human GHG emissions and CO2 levels (Mauna Loa) reaching
record levels.
This was warm enough to set another milestone that had already been set two previous times this year; the average
global sea surface temperature was so warm in September that it broke the all - time
record for the highest departure from average for any month since 1880, at 1.19 degrees Fahrenheit above average.
The integrated NAO (INAO) is found to well correlate with the length of the day (since 1650) and the
global surface sea temperature record HadSST2 and HadSST3 (since 1850).
Now the NOAA data comes in and confirms the GISS data, and shows the http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/jun/
global.html
Global Highlights: Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and
sea surface temperature was the second warmest on
record for June and the January - June year - to - date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on
record.
• The August
global sea surface temperature beats the previous all - time
record (set just two months ago in June).
John Imbrie used time - series analysis to statistically compare the timing and cycles in the
sea surface temperature and
global ice volume
records with patterns of the Earth's orbit.
Blue points: the GISS 1999 land +
sea global surface air
temperature record.
Provisional estimates of average
global temperatures based on monthly climatological land - station and
sea -
surface temperature records have suggested it could be the warmest year on
record.
These datasets include: NOAA Climate Data
Record (CDR) of
Sea Surface Temperature - WHOI, Version 1.0 U.S. Monthly Extremes
Global Historical Climatology Network — Monthly (GHCN - M) Version 3 African Easterly Wave Climatology Version 1 NOAA Climate Data
Record (CDR) of Daily Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), Version 1.2 NOAA Climate Data
Record (CDR) of Monthly Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), Version 2.2 - 1
Global Surface Summary of the Day — GSOD Monthly Summaries of the
Global Historical Climatology Network — Daily (GHCN - D) I nternational
Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land
Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 1 Monthly International
Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land
Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 2 Monthly International
Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land
Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 3 Monthly International
Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land
Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 1 Daily... Continued
These datasets include: NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily
Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) Analysis, Version 2 AVHRR Pathfinder Version 5.2 Level 3 Collated (L3C)
Global 4 km
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Climate Data
Record (CDR) for 1981 - 2010 NOAA Climate Data
Record (CDR) of Gridded Satellite Data from ISCCP B1 (GridSat - B1) 11 micron Brightness
Temperature, Version 2 NCDC Storm Events Database Coastal Economic Trends for Coastal Geographies Demographic Trends (1970 - 2010) for Coastal Geographies FEMA HAZUS Critical Facilities for Coastal Geographies Time - Series Data for Self - Employed Economic Activity Dependent on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 Time - Series Data on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 (Sector and Industry Level) Time - Series Data on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 (Sector Level)... Continued
Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic
sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in
global temperatures,
sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes,
sea ice extent will decrease.
Here tests for causality using the
global mean near -
surface air
temperature (GT) and Atlantic
sea -
surface temperature (SST)
records during the Atlantic hurricane season are applied.
Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee's chairman, subpoenaed NOAA in late 2015 for
records related to the so - called «Karl study» that adjusted
global sea surface temperature upwards, eliminating the «pause» in
global warming since 1998.
Recent research highlights include new
sea surface temperature records for the Paleogene and biomarker
records for methane cycling and hydrological changes during past episodes of
global warmth.
Specifically, the study found that» [d] uring much of last year's hurricane season,
sea -
surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic between 10 and 20 degrees north... were a
record 1.7 degrees F above the 1901 - 1970 average,» «
global warming explained about 0.8 degrees F of this rise,» while» [a] ftereffects from the 2004 - 05 El Nino accounted for about 0.4 degrees F,» and a natural cycle in
sea -
surface temperatures «explained less than 0.2 degrees F of the rise.»
Such as another fascinating paper by Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus in the Deptment of Geology at Western Washington University: «Solar Influence on Recurring
Global, Decadal, Climate Cycles
Recorded by Glacial Fluctuations, Ice Cores,
Sea Surface Temperatures, and Historic Measurements Over the Past Millennium» — Hat tip to Anthony Watt's Watts Up with That.