Sentences with phrase «events than surface temperature»

And the TLT data are more sensitive to ENSO events than surface temperature data (Figure 1).

Not exact matches

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.

But sea surface temperatures in tropical areas are now warmer during today's La Niña years (when the water is typically cooler) than during El Niño events 40 years ago, says study coauthor Terry Hughes, a coral researcher at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

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.

They combined this information with the land surface temperatures measured by satellite and found that more than half a million people — about 10 percent of the population — inhabit neighborhoods that are most vulnerable to heat event health impacts.

To be an «extreme» event, sea surface temperatures have to drop over 1.75 degrees Celsius lower than normal, as the map below shows.

What this will mean is that a El Nina will have more effect on surface temperatures than a similar sized event in the past.

It is clear that the random occurrence of a summertime block in the presence of the projected changes in future surface temperature would produce heat waves materially more severe than the 2010 event.

17 El Nino verses La Nina El Niño La Niña Trade winds weaken Warm ocean water replaces offshore cold water near South America Irregular intervals of three to seven years Wetter than average winters in NC La Niña Normal conditions between El Nino events When surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are colder than average The southern US is usually warmer and dryer in climate

If the magnitudes of El Nino events are greater than the magnitudes of an equal number of La Ninas, which they have been, sea surface temperatures for Australian waters should rise, and they did.

-- In the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to Congress a plan identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional greenhouse gas reductions, including any recommendations for legislative action.

Again for example, during multidecadal periods when El Niño events dominate, the tropical North Atlantic trade winds would be on average weaker than «normal», there would be less evaporation, less cool subsurface waters would be drawn to the surface, and tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures would rise.

Then, less than seven months later, what he called «an unusual sea - surface temperature spike» caused another moderate to severe bleaching event.

Their two main results are a confirmation that current global surface temperatures are hotter than at any time in the past 1,400 years (the general «hockey stick» shape, as shown in Figure 1), and that while the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) are clearly visible events in their reconstruction, they were not globally synchronized events.

As recently as a few thousand years ago, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the South China Sea were at least 2 °C warmer than they are today, and mass coral death events routinely occurred due to severe bleaching.

El Niño events tend to show up more prominently in tropospheric temperatures than in surface temperatures.

Perhaps solar cycles or volcanoes coincided with some of the ENSO episodes thus moving surface temperatures more than they usually do for an ENSO event.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

I read: Concurrently, the temperature in the ocean surface layers was lower than normal during the warming event and higher than normal during the cooling event.