Sentences with phrase «higher sst»

ESTIMATES of warm - water coral cover reduction in the last 20 - 25 years are 30 % or higher (Wilkinson, 2004; Hoegh - Guldberg, 2005) due largely to increasing higher SST frequency (Hoegh - Guldberg, 1999).

Estimates of warm - water coral cover reduction in the last 20 - 25 years are 30 % or higher (Wilkinson, 2004; Hoegh - Guldberg, 2005) due largely to increasing higher SST frequency (Hoegh - Guldberg, 1999).

Re # 106 — The higher SST's would suggest that there is a larger area over which hurricanes could develop so this leads to a higher number.

There were more shallow oceans then which allowed higher SST's to exist.

Theoretically, higher SST means more rain hence more incidence of flood.

Thus, the higher SST's during an El Niño are an excellent predictor for seeing higher tropospheric temperatures a few months later as those higher SSTs are energy on the way out of the ocean.

My interpretation would be higher SST and eventual increase in thunderstorms moves mass from ocean to atmosphere.

And if you can provide data showing the suface temp along Sandy's track was higher, please provide the mechanism by which the higher SST's strengthen hurricanes.

As for the iris and Bart — I show the latest data from CERES that shows that higher sst results in higher losses of IR to space and vice versa.

So, in what way these factors (higher T tropo, higher SST, higher evaporation) differ substantially from a GHGs forced warming (except nominally that they are called «Madden - Julian Oscillations»)?

# 99, I would assume, though, that higher SST correlates with increased hurricanes, since while it may not be a SUFFICIENT CAUSE (other factors are also required to create a hurricane), it does seem to be a NECESSARY CAUSE (hurricanes can not happen without higher SST).

I thought of some way in which you could get more intensity, without increased frequency: Perhaps hurricanes & tropical storms are clubbing together into more intense storms (what would have been 2 hurricanes given lower SST, become 1 more intense hurricane, given the higher SST).

If the NAO were driving an ocean current that contains higher SST's and more saline surface water into the Arctic region, I suspect it would be a possible correlation that salinity may be playing a part in the Arctic ice loss.

Sooner or later the increased severity of hurricanes (which are already twice a strong due to higher SST), and increased frequency and severity of El Nino, will have to be called what they are: manifestations of global warming.

In other words, what is the hidden motive of NOAA to deny global warming and higher SST?

But it's also very probable than high SST will induce an higher instability of the atmospheric layer.

Does this mean that for the time being high SSTs in the northward drift of the THC are coexisting with a lessening of the circulation overall?

Since high hurricane activity is associated with periods of high sst in the tropics which we have now and did in the 1920 ′ and 1930's 2.

I also remember reading around that time about a big decline in fish due to a huge plankton kill - off due to high SST and / or lack of upchurning nutrients (I think somewhere in the eastern Pacific).

If there was a difference when a dominant (NAO vs PDO), with the NAO ocean current carrying higher SSTs and saline ocean currents into the Arctic region had differing results in regional melt, I suspect it would be a good correlation for salinity playing a part.

Thus any imbalance, no matter what the origin is, which leads to higher SSTs, is counteracted by more loss of energy to space, far larger than the imbalance of the Hansen report suggests...

But we have all been busy attributing the busy hurricane season (and strong hurricanes) to high SSTs.

I would certainly think that there are, given that high SSTs are routinely used (by AGW - denier Bill Gray, et al) to predict the intensity of individual seasons.

As the NAO is also linked to Gulf Stream strength, this may influence the area of high SSTs...

Even if there is equal warming in the tropics, but the heat is not dissipated to the poles fast enough by the ocean currents, the area of high SSTs will increase and more heat will dissipated by other means like TC's.

Thus any imbalance, no matter what the origin is, which leads to higher SSTs, is counteracted by more loss of energy to space

So are there good theoretical reasons to expect stronger hurricanes due to higher SSTs?

I wonder if the fact the higher SSTs will lead to somewhat longer seasons (and 2005 certainly had that), and larger sea - surface area where TCs might form, would serve to counteract the effect you describe, and still lead, net - net, to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones with higher SSTs.

For example, 2005 Atlantic had exceptionally high SSTs, the largest concentration ever of very strong storms, and also, by far, the largest number of named storms.

The high SSTs provide ample moisture to the atmosphere and the resulting evaporative cooling of the ocean dropped the subsequent SST values down, but meanwhile heavy rains, often record breaking in intensity, occurred nearby to where the winds carried the moisture.

Indeed, the high SSTs were accompanied by very high water vapor amounts.

They probably reckon that the east coast current which is holding such high SSTs isn't going to allow much change before the end of the month but it will be interesting to see how smart they are.

Record high SSTs were recorded in the locations and at the times indicated with record flooding nearby

In the Asian sector, as the northern monsoon faded in late August of 2010, activity began to pick up in Australia, which switched to become very wet in September, continent wide, again reflecting the very high SSTs to the north (second highest on record), abundant moisture and the La Niña conditions.

While natural variability clearly plays a major role in all events, such as those detailed below in 2010 and 2011, the record high SSTs did as well.

Note that the La Niña in 2011 — 12 has different character owing to the absence of the high SSTs in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

This was a fore - runner to the exceptionally heavy rains in Queensland in December 2010, and January 2011 where the southern monsoon rains kicked in with the presence of record high SSTs.

In part the high SSTs were a consequence of the previous El Niño (Trenberth et al. 2002) but there is surely a significant global warming component (Gillett et al. 2008).

Because the water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature (e.g., Trenberth et al. 2003), a positive anomaly on top of already high SSTs has much greater effect than if located elsewhere.

Another interesting factoid is that the highest SST measured by ARGO buoys is also right around 34.4 C. High readings cluster at 30C like there's almost a brick wall at that temperature with rare departures above it to a maximum of a bit under 35C.

For example, the northern East Asian summer monsoon (NEASM) is, for the years of highest SST anomalies in the tropical eastern Pacific (TEP), affected by the Pacific - East Asian (PEA) teleconnection pattern, which consists of a wave creating an anomalously strong western North Pacific (WNP) anticyclonic circulation and anomalously strong cyclonic circulation in the NEASM region, creating more monsoon rainfall.

The most recent decade has the highest SSTs on record in the tropical North Atlantic (Figure 3.33), apparently as part of global warming and a favourable phase of the AMO.

In 2005, record - high SSTs (Figure 3.33) and favourable atmospheric conditions enabled the most active season on record (by many measures), but this was not fully reflected in the ACE index (see also Section 3.8.4, Box 3.6).

The NOAA record high SSTs are only for their ERSST.v3b data.

Higher SSTs are generally accompanied by increased water vapour in the lower troposphere (see Section 3.4.2.1 and Figure 3.20), thus the moist static energy that fuels convection and thunderstorms is also increased.

Such high SSTs are associated with most ENSO events, and it is probably SSTs in these regions, rather than the Pacific ENSO (Nicholson and Kim, 1997), that have the largest influence on east African rainfall.

After the 97 - 98 El Nino with such high SST's, it would be more accurate to have said «look how much heat WAS in the ocean», rather than «look how much the oceans are warming.»

«The Blob» — the prominent region of extremely high SST anomalies in the North Pacific region — has now persisted for a full year.

One year doesn't prove anything, what is interesting about 2005 season is that it shows the obvious: that higher SSTs extend the season in both directions, and extend the region of the ocean in which hurricanes may form.

For example, there's a problem with your statement that Elsner's recent study «blamed» increased air temps for higher SSTs.