The latest temperature maps, released today, confirm parts of the tropical Pacific are up to 3C warmer than the long term average (dark red in the map below).
Not exact matches
The
maps below compare
late 20th century
temperatures to projections for the mid — 21st century.
Figure 9.4: The
maps show projected increases in the average
temperature on the hottest days by
late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).
I will have more to say on this as the
latest SST / SHA
maps (2 days behind Real - Time) come to hand and I can determine just how much Florida has cleaned up those wasteater emissions off its west coast and what effect that has had on overall GOM
temperatures and dynamic circulation couplings.
Because of global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases, the
maps from the
late 1800s and the early 1900s are dominated by shades of blue, indicating
temperatures were up to 3 °C (5.4 °F) cooler than the twentieth - century average.
Figure 9.4: The
maps show projected increases in the average
temperature on the hottest days by
late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).
Maps show projected change in average surface air
temperature in the
later part of this century (2071 - 2099) relative to the
later part of the last century (1970 - 1999) under a scenario that assumes substantial reductions in heat trapping gases (B1) and a higher emissions scenario that assumes continued increases in global emissions (A2).
The
latest NOAA «departure from normal
temperature»
map below reflects extreme and historically unprecedented
temperature imbalances from West to East.
Note the graph linked above has the phases labelled «PDO phases» because that is what they appeared to
map to when I did the graph in
late 2009, but their line segments are derived purely from the phases in the
temperatures and not from any PDO data.
Coinciding with the event, the Copernicus Climate Change Service released its
latest monthly
map on the earth's average air surface
temperature.
An examination of the
latest «
Temperature Departure From Average»
map below very clearly reveals where it is cool, and where it is not.