Sentences with phrase «change in sea surface temperature»

Scientists think this reversal in strength was driven by changes in sea surface temperature and upper - ocean ventilation.

Over the 20th century, based on changes in sea surface temperatures, it is estimated that atmospheric water vapour increased by about 5 % in the atmosphere over the oceans.

I think the evidence is emerging that quite small changes in sea surface temperatures have huge effects on hurricanes and these events.

The impact of the recent change in sea surface temperature datasets is discussed here.

The larger question is how changes in sea surface temperature affect the atmosphere, particularly surrounding the major currents.

Scientists think this reversal in strength was driven by changes in sea surface temperature and upper - ocean ventilation.

This seems to be associated with particular patterns of change in sea surface temperature in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a teleconnection which is well - captured in climate models on seasonal timescales.

The data, in the form of infrared images of the Earth's surface, is used to detect changes in sea surface temperatures for research into climate change.

The phases are associated with changes in sea surface temperatures (SST).

The first image, based on data from January 1997 when El Nio was still strengthening shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an associated change in sea surface temperature of up to 5.4 degrees C.

The data, in the form of infrared images of the Earth's surface, is used to detect changes in sea surface temperatures for research -LSB-...]

It also shifts in response to interannual and decadal changes in sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

On multiyear timescales, the large changes in the sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific associated with the so - called El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) seem to cause shifts in the distribution of water vapor.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Ajay Kalra of the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas has identified several regions of the Pacific Ocean where changes in sea surface temperature appear to be statistically linked to the Colorado River's streamflow.

But it does say; «Natural climate variations, which tend to involve localized changes in sea surface temperature, may have a larger effect on hurricane activity than the more uniform patterns of global warming...»

Give the students the graph below from Johnstone 2014 and ask them to compare changes in sea surface temperatures (SST in red) with the raw and recently homogenized temperature data from southern California.

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-- The periodic change in sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, known as ENSO, has an impact on temperatures and precipitation in the neighbouring contents and across the globe.

But more importantly, according to Peter, scientists now have the tools to test global circulation models and monitor worldwide changes in sea surface temperatures and circulation brought about by global warming.

It alternates between two phases — the warm phase (El Niño) and the cold phase (La Niña)-- that result from changes in the sea surface temperature and associated atmospheric circulation.

They then calculate the contribution by dust and volcanic aerosols to observed changes in sea surface temperature (SST) during the satellite record between 1982 and 2007.

In contrast to historical droughts, future drying is not linked to any particular pattern of change in sea surface temperature but seems to be the result of an overall surface warming driven by rising greenhouse gases.

The associated changes in sea surface temperature can have global consequences, but the MJO is difficult to explain theoretically or simulate in atmospheric general circulation models, and its relationship with sea surface temperature is poorly understood.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

Several studies linked this to changes in sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, but it was not clear if this was part of a long - term trend.

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

They defined extreme El Niños according to their impacts on weather, rather than the changes in sea surface temperature.

The interaction of the ocean and atmosphere means that these changes in sea surface temperatures are translated into changes in wind direction and strength.

The reason may be due to Hadley circulation which is itself linked to changes in sea surface temperature (ocean heat supply) and the Walker Circulation, that is, ENSO.

Threats to the auklet include introduced carnivores (particularly in Alaska), oil spills, and changes in sea surface temperature (caused by El Niño events).

This suggests that the lagged result first found by Lindzen and Choi is actually a result of variations in atmospheric circulation driven by changes in sea surface temperature, and contrary to Lindzen's claims, is not evidence that clouds are causing climate change, because in the models which successfully replicate the cloud - temperature lag, temperatures can not be driven by cloud changes.

Author Professor Robert G. V. Baker from the School of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Australia, says, «The interaction between the directionality in the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields, the incidence of ultraviolet radiation over the tropical Pacific, and changes in sea surface temperatures with cloud cover — could all contribute to an explanation of substantial changes in the SOI from solar cycle fluctuations.

This extended drought is linked with the changes in the sea surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean, according to a study led by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Glen MacDonald.

Jennifer has hit onto an important point worldwide, especially the changes in sea surface temperature instrumentation and protocols (70 % of the globe).

The chemical tracers show that the speed of the ocean overturning circulation changed first and that a change in sea surface temperature followed.

Although there is little to no evidence of changing total rainfall and clouds seem to respond more to changes in sea surface temperature.