The adjacent charts (courtesy of ocean expert Bob Tisdale) plot the temperature changes for each major
ocean basin since late 1981.
Regional linear trends for 14
ocean basins since 1970 show the fastest sea level rise for the Antarctica (4.1 ± 0.8 mm · yr − 1) and Arctic (3.6 ± 0.3 mm · yr − 1).
Not exact matches
Their study demonstrates that
since 1982, broad stretches of these
ocean basins have warmed and become significantly more hospitable to these algae and that new «blooms» of these algae have become common in these same regions.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00148.1 Global satellite observations show the sea surface temperature (SST) increasing
since the 1970s in all
ocean basins, while the net air — sea heat flux Q decreases.
The only
ocean basin where the rise might be misinterpreted as being monotonous WAS the North Atlantic, but that has shown a significant drop
since 2005.
Bob's main work involves ENSO phenomena and
ocean sub
basin SSTs
since the beginning of the satellite era.
Since the East Indian and West Pacific
Oceans are not isolated by landmass,
ocean currents spread this cumulative warming into the adjoining
ocean basins.
The finding stems from more than a decade of effort to virtually reconstruct ancient
ocean basins to understand how their size and depth have changed
since the Cretaceous, which lasted from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago.
Since the
ocean basins (esp.
Since the tropical West Pacific is already warmer on average than the East, this trend led to a substantial increase in the west - to - east temperature differential across the Pacific
Ocean basin over a 15 year period.