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Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched CalifornOcean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched Californocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

The main drivers of El Niño conditions, ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, were as high as 3 °C above the average, making this event one of the three most intense El Niños on record.

More frequent and larger changes in the North Pacific High appear to originate from rising variability in the tropics and are linked to the record - breaking El Niño events in 1983, 1998, and 2016 and the 2014 - 2015 North Pacific Ocean heat wave known as «The Blob.»

The wave - powered sub Papa Mau not only set a record while crossing the Pacific Ocean autonomously, it also studied rogue waves and other marine phenomena invisible to eyes in the sky

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

So, below are the records set by the most impressive North Atlantic hurricanes, since meteorologists began to name them more than half a century ago — as well as for storms in the Pacific Ocean, which actually rank number one in many of the categories.

Using records stretching back to 1791, the study finds that a switch in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO has always been accompanied by changes in temperature in the north and south Pacific Ocean.

Temperatures last year broke a 2015 record by almost 0.2 C (0.36 F), Copernicus said, boosted by a build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and by a natural El Nino weather event in the Pacific Ocean, which releases heat to the atmosphere.

As Japan suffered the worst earthquake in the country's recorded history, tsunami waves fanned out across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jetliner

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

The Pacific Ocean can belch heat back into the atmosphere depending on the winds, a new record written in coral shows

Far - flung coastal communities accustomed to the Pacific Ocean's mighty onslaughts were flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense storms currently on record, with sustained winds ripping through their streets at around 320 kilometers per hour and gusts reaching 370 kph.

The situation isn't helped by a monster El Niño that is raging across the Pacific Ocean — some models predict it could be the strongest El Niño ever seen, beating the last record set in 1998.

Several scientists are poring over data recorded by a robotic submarine that set a distance record for autonomous vehicles when it crossed the Pacific Ocean late last year.

Record warmth for the year was particularly notable in large parts of the northeastern and equatorial Pacific, a large swath of the western North Atlantic, most of the Indian Ocean where a positive Indian Ocean dipole prevailed, and parts of the Arctic Ocean.

The deposits containing the boulders are the only record of glaciation in the northern subtropical Pacific Ocean.

Prior to Sept. 1, Kilo was one of a trio of Category 4 hurricanes in the northeastern Pacific — a record clustering for any ocean basin.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

Near - record strong El Niño conditions prevailed in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during the month.

Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no areas of the global oceans record cold.

Record warmth was most notable over much of South America, the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, much of the central western Atlantic, and most of the Indian Ocean.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

Strong El Niño conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during November 2015, as evidenced by record warmth across much of this region.

Record warmth was observed across most of the Indian Ocean, where a positive Indian Ocean dipole has been in place since early 2014, and across much of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, where a strong El Niño developed.

Record high sea surface temperatures across most of the Indian Ocean, along with parts of the Atlantic Ocean, and southwest Pacific Ocean contributed to the May warmth.

Record high sea surface temperatures across most of the North Indian Ocean, along with parts of the central equatorial and southwest Pacific Ocean contributed to the April warmth.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

The 10 highest three - month temperature departures in the record have all occurred since July — September 2015, when strong El Niño conditions were in place in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

The 10 highest three - month temperature departures in the record have all occurred since August — October 2015, when a strong El Niño episode was in place in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

The South China Sea (SCS) is said to be ocean - dominated at depth, and its CaCO3 records should reflect and preserve the effects of changes in the carbonate chemistry of the (western) Pacific Oocean - dominated at depth, and its CaCO3 records should reflect and preserve the effects of changes in the carbonate chemistry of the (western) Pacific OceanOcean.

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This year has seen record high sea surface temperatures in the Nino3.4 region, the area of the Pacific Ocean where these events are commonly measured.

The East Pacific saw two other impressive records: In late August, three Category 4 storms (Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena) spanned the basin, the first time that has ever happened in any ocean basin.

In this case, the quake was caused when a 620 - mile - long (1,000 kilometers) stretch of the Nazca plate, an oceanic plate that forms a large swath of the Pacific Ocean floor, lurched deeper beneath the South American plate, producing the only 9.5 - magnitude quake on record.

In addition to starring, Eckhart will also serve as executive producer and record his own versions of Wilson's 1977 solo album Pacific Ocean Blue.

The docks at Fisherman's Wharf were splashed by sun but cast in gloom Wednesday as word spread that a deadly natural toxin linked to this year's record Pacific Ocean temperatures was likely to delay or even force cancellation of Dungeness crab season off the coast of San Francisco.

It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the North American coastline from Oregon to Baja California; it has been recorded as far north as British Columbia.

[10] The round - trip journey of one gray whale has set a new record for the longest mammal migration, covering a distance of more than 22,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean.

Though 2015 was a record year, the warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean and the resulting deleterious effects on seals and sea lions began before the onset of the current El Niño effect.

The North Pacific Gyre acts as the eye of the ocean to record the human imprint as it gathers drifting debris in an area the size of Texas.

Below, I'll discuss the growing prospect of record - breaking flooding along the Mississippi River, fueled in part by the Pacific Ocean pattern.

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

We often see «skeptics» suggest that the additional warming stored in the ocean can't possibly come back to affect tropospheric temperatures in any meaningful way, but the record levels of energy being stored in the Indo Pacific Warm Pool has impacted and made possible the record tropospheric temperatures Australia saw in 2013.

In particular, the trade winds over the Pacific reached record - breaking strength recently, which helps stir heat into the oceans.

The atmospheric river of moisture streaming off of the record warm Pacific ocean is heavily aerosolized (as described above) which keeps much of the moisture from falling and broadcasts it out into massive regions of rainless (and toxic) cloud cover expanding out over the Western US.

A «winter snow storm» from a flow of moisture that originated over record warm ocean temperatures of the Pacific.

An even hotter Pacific Ocean and a faster rising atmospheric temperature — so an extra hot end to an already hottest year on record.

Although 2008 was the coolest year of the decade, due to strong cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean, 2009 saw a return to near - record global temperatures.