However the complexity of sea surface makes for instance any application of Henry's law be too uncertain, even impossible, to reach any quantitative results concerning the influence
of global sea surface temperature on the CO2 content in atmosphere.
The
average global sea surface temperature tied with 2010 as the second highest for January — August in the 135 - year period of record, behind 1998, while the average land surface temperature was the fifth highest.
Furthermore, they fail to reconcile their hypothesis with the established large - scale warming evident from
global sea surface temperature data that, again, can not be influenced by the local, non-climatic factors they argue contaminate evidence for surface warming.
That now means, within the last three years,
when global sea surface temperatures have been at their highest, we have seen the strongest hurricane globally, the strongest hurricane in the northern hemisphere, the strongest hurricane in the southern hemisphere, and the strongest storms in both the Pacific and the open Atlantic, with Irma.
They compared the results of 12,842 simulations based on the
current global sea surface temperatures, with 25,893 results computed on the assumption that global warming had never occurred — that fossil fuel burning had not raised CO2 to today's levels and ocean surfaces were cooler.
For the oceans, the
November global sea surface temperature was 0.84 °C (1.51 °F) above the 20th century average of 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the highest for November on record, surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.20 °C (0.36 °F).
Other analyses of Eemian data
find global sea surface temperature warmer than the Late Holocene by 0.7 ± 0.6 °C [77] and all - surface warming of 2 °C [78], all in reasonable accord with our prescription.
They also ran atmospheric models that used
observed global sea surface temperatures, Arctic sea ice conditions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in 2010 to assess whether such factors might have contributed to the heat wave.
Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee's chairman, subpoenaed NOAA in late 2015 for records related to the so - called «Karl study» that
adjusted global sea surface temperature upwards, eliminating the «pause» in global warming since 1998.
The intensification is primarily attributed to a mega-El Niño / Southern Oscillation (a leading mode of interannual - to - interdecadal variation
of global sea surface temperature) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and further influenced by hemispherical asymmetric global warming.
The
average global sea surface temperature for the year - to - date was the highest for January — November in the 136 - year period of record, at 0.72 °C (1.30 °F) above average, surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.09 °C (0.16 °F).
... Within the last three years,
when global sea surface temperatures have been at their highest, we have seen the strongest hurricane globally, the strongest hurricane in the northern hemisphere, the strongest hurricane in the southern hemisphere, and the strongest storms in both the Pacific and the open Atlantic, with [Hurricane] Irma.»
Ocean Only: The August
global sea surface temperature was 1.17 °F (0.65 °C) above the 20th century average of 61.4 °F (16.4 °C), the highest on record for August.
Shabbar, A. & Skinner, W. Summer drought patterns in Canada and the relationship to
global sea surface temperatures.
«Solar Total Irradiance Variations and
the Global Sea Surface Temperature Record.»