Sentences with phrase «cooling ocean cycle»

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Science questions the answers, e.g. hurricanes are caused by warm moist ocean air being drawn up into the cooler atmosphere and creating a wind pattern though we are still open to consider other factors that may have influence on this cycle.

The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change

In April 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.

The National Weather Service outlooks, and most climate models, focus primarily on the connection between El Nino / La Nina (cycles of warmer and cooler water temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean) and weather in the continental U.S..

Naturally occurring interannual and multidecadal shifts in regional ocean regimes such as the Pacific El Niño - Southern Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, for example, are bimodal oscillations that cycle between phases of warmer and cooler sea surface temperatures.

While not nearly as dramatic, the influence of solar, ocean, and wind patterns is much more immediate, but these effects generally alternate between warming and cooling over the course of months to decades in relation to their respective cycles.

Cooling sea - surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean — part of a natural warm and cold cycle — may explain why global average temperatures have stabilized in recent years, even as greenhouse gas emissions have been warming the planet.

Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers from the cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.

What happens to global temperature trends when you factor in the potentially confounding influence of ocean warming and cooling cycles?

I'm not just talking about 2008 being a La Nina year, I'm talking about the last 5 years that the oceans in particular have been cooling, long before the end of the last solar cycle or the recent La Nina.

Dr. Easterbrook spoke of his studies of solar activity and ocean cycles and his prediction that a decades - long global cooling spell was coming, deeper than the one in the middle of the 20th century.

Some say thermometers are flawed and the world isn't warming much, others that warming and cool spells are the result of solar vagaries, ocean cycles or simple random variability in a sloshy system (basically anything but greenhouse gases, their critics note).

This may lead to long term heating and warming cycles in the oceans that are the result of upwheling of cool water from deep within the oceans.

The real problem here is that this AMO explanation was picked up and broadcast by the press in a very uncritical manner, usually in these terms: «Surface waters of the Atlantic ocean warm up then cool down in long, subtle cycles.

Here we show the existence of a distinctive seasonal cycle of subsurface cooling via mixing in the equatorial Pacific cold tongue, using multi-year measurements of turbulence in the ocean.

It's important to note that a substantial short - term influence on the globe's average temperature, the cycle of El Niño warmth and La Niña cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was in the warm phase until May but a La Niña cooling is forecast later this year, according to the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

But as cogently interpreted by the physicist and climate expert Dr. Joseph Romm of the liberal Center for American Progress, «Latif has NOT predicted a cooling trend — or a «decades - long deep freeze» — but rather a short - time span where human - caused warming might be partly offset by ocean cycles, staying at current record levels, but then followed by «accelerated» warming where you catch up to the long - term human - caused trend.

Most scientists attribute this «pause» in warming to natural climate cycles that have a cooling effect on the planet, especially ocean oscillation cycles.

The cooling from 1950 to 1970 is due to the cooling phase of the ocean cycle as shown in the following paper (Figure 4): http://bit.ly/nfQr92

If sensitivity to doubling CO2 is 1.6 C / doubling, that's too strong for the Sun or ocean cycles or whatever skeptics think is going to cause cooling to be able to compete.

The oceans will inevitably cool a little as we pass a solar cycle peak and move into a cycle trough over the next couple of years.

There are two main explanations for the 1940s to 1970s global temperature stagnation (or slight cooling): aerosol forcing and the negative phase of an ocean cycle known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), with the former contributing more than the latter.

Many people have postulated that there are cyclical changes in heat transfer from the oceans to the atmosphere which causes rhythmic cycles of warming / cooling.

The aim of the C - SIDE working group is to reconstruct changes in sea - ice extent in the Southern Ocean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynaOcean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynaocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynamics.

Scientists studying oceans demonstrate that the recent warming, to the end of the last century, is part of the natural cycle of oceanic oscillations and predict a thirty year cooling phase.

But as a cooling world is now much more likely than a warming one for the next half century in the light of the current sunspot cycles and the ocean oscillations it would seem absolutely negligent to ignore the possibility, however politically incorrect it might be to entertain the thought.

Now stories will read for the new report, «IPCC blames warming hiatus on cooling from ocean cycles, but says ocean cycles have nothing to do with earlier warming».

The basic ocean cycle goes like this; in the summer brine is concentrated by evaporation and in the winter the dense brine cools and becomes still denser and sinks.

IPCC Scientist Warns UN: We are about to enter «one or even 2 decades during which temps cool» — Admits «Jury is still out» on ocean cycle's temp impact!)

This robust cycle does not care if we cause any warming, the polar oceans thaw and increase the cooling snowfall at the same thermostat set point.

IPCC Scientist Warns UN: We are about to enter «one or even 2 decades during which temps cool» — Admits «Jury is still out» on ocean cycle's temp impact!

It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.

The paper by Dr. Petr Chylek et al., you linked to suggests that 2x [CO2] is approximate 1.7 degrees, which is pretty much the same as that calculated by anyone who uses ocean warming / cooling cycles in their deconvolution.

Since Solar Cycle began we have seen a cooling and contracting of the upper atmosphere, cooling oceans and cooling climate.

None of the Annan / Hargreaves priors go below zero, and while this may be physically realistic it does not allow for the fact that the observational data generate negative sensitivities, mostly because of ocean cycle warming and cooling effects that the radiative forcing estimates do not take into account.

It was mostly if not entirely a result of a change from a warm to a cold PDO cycle in 1939 (with a later assist from the AMO), and I get my negative sensitivities because the forcing estimates don't allow for the heating and cooling impacts of ocean cycles.

And the current scientific consensus that the upper 300 meters of the oceans have been cooling since 2003 bodes well for natural cycles prediction.13

Dessler finds that the short - term changes in surface temperature are related to exchanges of heat to and from the ocean - which tallies well with what we know about El Niño and La Niña, and their atmospheric warming / cooling cycles.

The paper being discussed here makes the claim that the current hiatus in warming is due to the heat going into the Atlantic ocean as the Atlantic ocean is currently in the 30 year cooling phase of it's ~ 60 year warming / cooling cycle.

Kevin C's excellent trend tool shows us what the new data mean for the surface temperature trend since 1970: it's about +0.17 C per decade, but there's a range in that because short term wiggles are caused by things like the El Nino - La Nina cycle in the Pacific which warm or cool the atmosphere by storing or releasing heat from the oceans.

This «hiatus» is probably due to the cooling influences from natural radiative forcings (more volcanic eruptions and reducing output from the sun as part of the natural 11 - year solar cycle) and internal variability (fluctuations within the oceans unrelated to forcings).

The heat hiding in ocean will soon be passé, old news, a defunct hypothesis, as the planet has started to cool due the solar magnetic cycle change.

Inspection suggests that the ocean oscillations appear to follow a 60 - year cycle, with approximately 30 years» warming followed by 30 years» cooling.

except we've measured the deep ocean temperatures and found that those waters are holding the increased warming during one of the natural warming / cooling cycles.

the melting ice is due to the warmer gulfstream, which collected warmth from the warming period which ended at ca. 2000 Climate on Earth is ruled, among others, by the Gleissberg solar / weather cycle http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2012/10/02/best-sine-wave-fit-for-the-drop-in-global-maximum-temperatures/ Those still pointing to melting ice and glaciers, as «proof» that it is (still) warming, and not cooling, should remember that there is a lag from energy - in and energy - out due to oceans acting as energy reservoirs..

Equatorial ocean temperatures fluctuate on a cycle; when they are warmer it's called an El Niño, and when they're cooler it's La Niña.

In the big picture Milankovitch cycles are favorable on balance and the land / ocean arrangements are very favorable for global cooling.

Could an increase in greenhouse gases actually have a cooling effect over water by speeding up the rate of evaporation from the oceans thereby extracting energy faster from the oceans, speeding up the hydrological cycle and pushing energy faster to space?

This gas is then cooled using water from deep beneath the ocean to restart the cycle.

I expect to see waves of heat crashing into the Western and Eastern seaboards, matching the Atlantic and Pacific ocean warming / cooling cycles.