Sentences with phrase «mean sea surface temperature»

It is officially the mean sea surface temperature anomaly from the equator to 70 degrees North.

This means that the global mean sea surface temperature mainly controls the CO2 content in the atmosphere; when the mean sea surface temperature is rising, the CO2 content in the atmosphere is increasing.

We compare simulation cooling from the combined forcing to a GMT reconstruction, based on a global mean sea surface temperature reconstruction (43) that we scaled by the factor 1.84 so as to match estimated LGM cooling (ref.

The results here reveal a larger picture — that the western tropical Indian Ocean has been warming for more than a century, at a rate faster than any other region of the tropical oceans, and turns out to be the largest contributor to the overall trend in the global mean sea surface temperature (SST)»

The annual mean sea surface temperature shows a high seasonality and important gradients from west to east and north to south (Figure 1b)[3].

The original ICOADS global mean sea surface temperature is shown in figure 1 along with the simple war - time adjustment analysed in this study.

The upper and lower panels show two different statistical relationships between the power dissipation index and sea surface temperature, one based on actual sea surface temperature (red curve, upper panel) and another based on Atlantic sea surface temperature relative to tropical mean sea surface temperature (cyan curve, lower panel).

The improved simulation of ENSO amplitude is mainly due to the reasonable representation of the thermocline and thermodynamic feedbacks: On the one hand, the deeper mean thermocline results in a weakened thermocline response to the zonal wind stress anomaly, and the looser vertical stratification of mean temperature leads to a weakened response of anomalous subsurface temperature to anomalous thermocline depth, both of which cause the reduced thermocline feedback in g2; on the other hand, the alleviated cold bias of mean sea surface temperature leads to more reasonable thermodynamic feedback in g2.

Closing Note: The additional problems with measuring and calculating global mean sea surface temperature are discussed at length in numerous posts at ClimateAudit and in the papers that are the subjects of or the references used for those posts.

Since 1950, global mean sea surface temperatures have risen roughly 1 ° F (0.6 ° C).6 Scientists estimate that regional sea surface temperatures in the North Sea increased by 1.6 ° F (0.9 ° C) from 1958 to 2002.7

That means sea surface temperatures are likely to rise and the trade wind to weaken, which could lead to a more permanent El Niño state and / or more intense El Niño events.

Not exact matches

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

The analysis of high - frequency surface air temperature, mean sea - level pressure, wind speed and direction and cloud - cover data from the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 from the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland, published today (Monday 22 August 2016), sheds new light on the phenomenon.

The interaction of the ocean and atmosphere means that these changes in sea surface temperatures are translated into changes in wind direction and strength.

Normalised RMS error in simulation of climatological patterns of monthly precipitation, mean sea level pressure and surface air temperature.

The East Pacific Ocean (90S - 90N, 180 - 80W) has not warmed since the start of the satellite - based Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature dataset, yet the multi-model mean of the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) and CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) simulations of sea surface temperatures say, if they were warmed by anthropogenic forcings, they should have warmed approximately 0.42 to 0.44 deg C.

These parameters include global mean surface temperature, sea - level rise, ocean and ice sheet dynamics, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic events.

Lou Grinzo (12)-- I am under the impression that HadCRUTv3 uses air temperatures on land and sea surface temperatures in the oceans to produce their global mean.

(The specific dataset used as the foundation of the composition was the Combined Land - Surface Air and Sea - Surface Water Temperature Anomalies Zonal annual means.)

However, the CRU global mean combined land air / sea surface temperature estimates for Jan - Aug 2005 lag behind the 1998 annual mean estimate by 0.08 C (0.50 C vs. 58C for 1998) while GISS indicates a lag of 0.02 C.

For the «business - as - usual» scenario RCP8.5, the model - mean changes in 2090s (compared to 1990s) for sea surface temperature, sea surface pH, global O2 content and integrated primary productivity amount to +2.73 °C, − 0.33 pH unit, − 3.45 % and − 8.6 %, respectively.

The observations from the Laptev Sea in 2007 indicate that the bottom water temperatures on the mid-shelf increased by more than 3 C compared to the long - term mean as a consequence of the unusually high summertime surface water temperatures.

Here, the author draws causality relationships between global mean near - surface air temperatures and Atlantic sea surface temperatures and hurricane power dissipation indexes using statistical causality tests.

The AARI data include drifting stations and ice information, although not the majority (my fault to see that as «main»), that means that the difference between only land based and total is in warmer sea surface temperatures.

This means that in these models, clouds respond to sea surface temperature changes, but not vice-versa.

Normalised RMS error in simulation of climatological patterns of monthly precipitation, mean sea level pressure and surface air temperature.

This February's sea surface temperatures were 1.46 degrees above average, which means the past nine months have been the nine highest monthly global ocean temperature departures on record.

Some are clearly at this level, meaning that it is within the margin of error that sea surface temperatures could have been higher.?»

Until you can all agree on whether changes in soil moisture are due to lower solar, or due to higher CO2, use solely sea surface temperatures for global mean surface T change.

Tropical Atlantic (10 ° N — 20 ° N) sea surface temperature annual anomalies (°C) in the region of Atlantic hurricane formation, relative to the 1961 to 1990 mean.

As a result, directly comparing the Sea Surface Temperature data from the early 20th century to the current Sea Surface Temperature data is like «comparing apples and oranges» — there have been too many changes in the data sources for such comparisons to have much meaning.

We might expect «global warming» (i.e., an increase in average surface air temperatures over a few decades) to lead to a rise in global mean sea levels.

Offshore, mean monthly sea surface temperatures range from 15.4 °C to 20.1 °C [3], but in the nearshore upwelling region, variability is greater and temperatures range from 10 °C to 18 °C [4].

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.

available peer - reviewed, science - based evidence to model the implications of their proposals for atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, global mean surface temperature, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts at the global scale.

This means that if the surface temperature is constant and energy is slowly transferring into the water column all the way to the sea floor, the ocean will keep expanding and sea level will continue rising.

Global mean surface temperature might well induce sea level rise but even there, it is not a singular factor and SLR is not rising a a calamitous rate as seen in the movies.

As we all here know (but most in the general public who are reading Mr. Rose's article probably do not), the «cool phase» is named so because of what it means for sea surface temperatures primarily along the North American west coast.

The evolution of global mean surface temperatures, zonal means and fields of sea surface temperatures, land surface temperatures, precipitation, outgoing longwave radiation, vertically integrated diabatic heating and divergence of atmospheric energy transports, and ocean heat content in the Pacific is documented using correlation and regression analysis.

Australia's climate has warmed in both mean surface air temperature and surrounding sea surface temperature by around 1 °C since 1910.

A regression - based forecast for September ice extent around Svalbard (an area extending from 72 — 85N and 0 — 40E), which uses May sea surface temperatures, the March index of the Arctic Oscillation, and April ice conditions as predictors, yielded a mean ice extent in September 2010 of 255,788 square kilometers around Svalbard.

Current «cool» phase of the PDO began in late 1998 / early 1999 (certainly not 2008), and when it flipped it generally meant cooler sea surface temperatures along the west coast of N. America but warmer temperatures on average over other other broad regions of the Pacific.

Based on proxy records from ice, terrestrial and marine archives, the LIG is characterized by an atmospheric CO2 concentration of about 290 ppm, i.e., similar to the pre-industrial (PI) value13, mean air temperatures in Northeast Siberia that were about 9 °C higher than today14, air temperatures above the Greenland NEEM ice core site of about 8 ± 4 °C above the mean of the past millennium15, North Atlantic sea - surface temperatures of about 2 °C higher than the modern (PI) temperatures12, 16, and a global sea level 5 — 9 m above the present sea level17.

Global mean temperatures from climate model simulations are typically calculated using surface air temperatures, while the corresponding observations are based on a blend of air and sea surface temperatures.

Daily mean NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data are used as atmospheric forcing, i.e., 10 - m surface winds, 2 - m surface air temperature (SAT), specific humidity, precipitation, evaporation, downwelling longwave radiation, sea level pressure, and cloud fraction.

In time as AGW progresses, the sea will warm as well, this means air surface temperatures will have to be colder to create sea ice.

Long - term mean ocean current velocities at 100 m depth (vectors, unit: m s — 1) and sea surface temperature (colours, °C) around the Kuroshio and the Kuroshio Extension obtained from a control experiment forced by pre-industrial conditions (CO2 concentration 295.9 ppm) using MIROC3.2 (hires).

The model calculates the path of atmospheric CO2 and other GHG concentrations, global mean surface temperature, and mean sea level rise resulting from these emissions.

The C - ROADS (Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support) simulator is based on the biogeophysical and integrated assessment literature and includes representations of the carbon cycle, other GHGs, radiative forcing, global mean surface temperature, and sea level change.

[Shaviv and Veizer, 2003] conclude that the effect of a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration on tropical sea surface temperatures (SST) is likely to be 0.5 ºC (up to 1.9 ºC at 99 % confidence), with global mean temperature changes about 1.5 times as large.