Sentences with phrase «average ocean temperatures in»

Warmer - than - average ocean temperatures in the region undoubtedly increased Cyclone Pam's size and strength.

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern defined by above - average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that affect weather patterns around the world, leading to a slight uptick in global temperatures.

And no matter the strong La Niña, the world average ocean temperature in 2010 was third highest.

Not exact matches

This year, the Atlantic was warmer than average — Klotzbach says August through October will likely rank third or fourth in terms of highest tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures.

Temperatures in Ocean City vary from being in the 90s F in the summer down to the teens during the average winter, Moore estimates.

Summer temperatures, which can average in the mid 80's or the mid 90's during the day, are often cooled by afternoon ocean breezes blowing into the valley through gaps in the Santa Ana foothills to the west.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

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.

But climate models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.

Comparing layers in the ice - core samples and ocean sediments has allowed researchers to deduce e.g. how the average temperature on Earth has changed over time, and also how great the variability was.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the highest for August since record keeping began in 1880.

But within these long periods there have been abrupt climate changes, sometimes happening in the space of just a few decades, with variations of up to 10ºC in the average temperature in the polar regions caused by changes in the Atlantic ocean circulation.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

However, certain areas in the oceans could be unusually warm and skew the overall long - term average temperature results of some of those prior studies, Shuman says.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

According to NOAA, the global average ocean temperature for the first half of the year is 1.42 °F (0.79 °C) above the 20th century average, the largest such departure in 137 years of records.

The man - made part of the disaster, caused by burning fossil fuels, has increased ocean temperature an average of 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the Industrial Revolution, according to a study in Science.

Average global land and ocean temperatures have climbed at a rate of 0.2 °C per decade since 1976, according to data compiled by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña, which warm or cool the tropical Pacific Ocean, can contribute to short - term variations in global average temperature.

Johnson hypothesizes that warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

The CPC officially considers it an event when the sea surface temperatures in a key region of the ocean reach at least 0.5 °C, or about 1 °F, warmer than average.

El Niño is characterized by a large area of warmer - than - average ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

The researchers found that phytoplankton in polar and temperate regions grow best at temperatures higher than the average annual temperatures of the oceans in which they live.

The June 2013 globally - averaged temperature across ocean surfaces was the 10th highest in the 134 - year period of record, at 0.48 °C (0.86 °F) above the 20th century average.

The average August temperature for the global oceans was record high for the month, at 0.65 °C (1.17 °F) above the 20th century average, beating the previous record set in 2005 by 0.08 °C (0.14 °F).

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

Naturally this article fails to mention that since the hydrosphere is 271 times as massive as the atmosphere, if oceans are absorbing the heat they are likely to moderate AGW into a nonproblem, as the average ocean temperature has only changed by.1 degrees in 50 years, an amount that is probably smaller than measurement error.

Time series of temperature anomaly for all waters warmer than 14 °C show large reductions in interannual to inter-decadal variability and a more spatially uniform upper ocean warming trend (0.12 Wm − 2 on average) than previous results.

«The average ocean temperature is much warmer than Siberia, initially suggesting that the formation of subsea pingos could not be recent, as anticipated for pingos in cold Siberian environments.

Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.

The ratio of these gases in the atmosphere therefore allows for the calculation of average global ocean temperature.

These rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have led to an increase in global average temperatures of ~ 0.2 °C decade — 1, much of which has been absorbed by the oceans, whilst the oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO2 has led to major changes in surface ocean pH (Levitus et al., 2000, 2005; Feely et al., 2008; Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno, 2010; Mora et al., 2013; Roemmich et al., 2015).

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.

(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.

The December 2015 globally - averaged temperature across land and ocean surfaces was 1.11 °C (2.00 °F) above the 20th century average of 12.2 °C (54.0 °F), the highest for any month since records began in 1880, surpassing the previous all - time record set two months ago in October by 0.12 °C (0.21 °F).

It was cooler than average in eastern Russia, regions of central and northern Africa, and part of central South America, according to the December Land & Ocean Temperatures Departure from Average and Percentiles mapsaverage in eastern Russia, regions of central and northern Africa, and part of central South America, according to the December Land & Ocean Temperatures Departure from Average and Percentiles mapsAverage and Percentiles maps above.

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.

Linear trend (1955 — 2003) of zonally averaged temperature in the upper 1,500 m of the water column of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and World Oceans.

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 globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2015 was the highest among all years since record keeping began in 1880.

During the final month, the December combined global land and ocean average surface temperature was the highest on record for any month in the 136 - year record.

This winter, that warmth reached astounding levels, with air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean ranging from 4 °F to 11 °F (2 °C to 6 °C) above average in nearly every region.

The Fourth Assessment Report finds that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising mean sea level.

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.

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.