Sentences with phrase «anomalously warm ocean surface»
(I think that an anomalously warm ocean surface heated from below would lead to more evaporation, and the additional water vapor would give a positive greenhouse effect that would partially offset the effect of a drop in greenhouse gas concentrations.)
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Think of what would happen if you could pump cold deep water up to the surface, increasing the air / sea temperature gradient and warming the water; that would give you an anomalously large ocean heat uptake.
We also know that while the ocean surface wasn't anomalously warm (it was still about 30 °C which is fairly normal for that part of the planet), the water up to at least 100 meters bellow the surface was 4 — 5 °C (7 — 9 °F) warmer than average.
During La Nina heat is buried in the subsurface ocean, whereas during El Nino the surface layer is anomalously warm.