Sentences with phrase «ocean temperature anomalies in»

Since ocean temperature anomalies in the canonical Niño 3.4 region are now above 2 C — which are record values for the calendar month and not too far from their highest values ever observed at any time of year — current observations in the real world suggests that the models are very much on track.

Not exact matches

«The data showed that both greenhouse gases and sea surface temperature anomalies contributed strongly to the risk of snow drought in Oregon and Washington,» said Mote, a professor in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

This image shows the sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific Ocean from April 14 — 21, 2008.

Time series of temperature anomaly for all waters warmer than 14 °C show large reductions in interannual to inter-decadal variability and a more spatially uniform upper ocean warming trend (0.12 Wm − 2 on average) than previous results.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.

Using the adjoint of an ocean general circulation model, I try to understand the local and remote processes that generate temperature anomalies in the Nordic Seas on different timescales and their potential contribution to decadal climate predictability.

During El Nino events the ocean circulation changes in such a way as to cause a large and temporary positive sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific.

[Response: Short term seasonal forecasting is very much an experimental endeavour and relies not on the predictability due to changes in forcings, but the persistence of ocean temperature anomalies.

«In the global [land and ocean] temperature anomaly data series of 1880 to 2010, the trend presented an increase of 0.6 oC per Century.

All siding with its infinite growth paradigm, so I'm not surprised to see you writing counter-pieces to the harsh truth, which, as it stands, is that we have a pretty much dead and severely warming ocean, daily record - breaking jet - stream related weather incidents, which in turn are caused by polar temperature anomalies of +20 C as of late.

However, it is unknown if the temporal variability of these aerosols is a key factor in the evolution of ocean temperature anomalies.

And a study by Evan et al (2009) The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies

The mainstream media by and large got the story right — puzzling anomaly tracked down, corrections in progress after a little scientific detective work, consequences minor — even though a few headline writers got a little carried away in equating a specific dip in 1945 ocean temperatures with the more gentle 1940s - 1970s cooling that is seen in the land measurements.

«Borehole temperatures in the ice sheets spanning the last 6000 years show Antarctica repeatedly warming when Greenland cooled, and vice versa... The phenomena has been called the polar see - saw... Attempts to account for it have included the hypothesis of a south - flowing warm ocean current with a built in time lag... There is (however) no significant delay in the Anarctica climate anomaly...

The behavior of the anomalies of temperature and salinity in the central Arctic Ocean follow a first - order linear response to the AO with time constant of 5 years and a delay of 3 years.

McIntyre has a new post where he tries to rescue the previous «projections» — but he confuses the changes in HadSST (ocean temperatures, which he is plotting) and the changes in HadCRUT3 (the global surface air temperature anomaly) which is what his projection was for (as can be seen in the figures in the main post).

In other words, the ocean is not a simple 1 - D slab that diffuses temperature anomalies down from the surface.

As far as I can see you got the tied for 10th highest GISTemp anomaly part right (I assume you have the Land - Ocean Temperature Index in mind, not the land only numbers) but my spreadsheet disagrees with your claim that the average anomaly for 2013 to date would put it in 3rd place — I get 9th.

England et al. suggest that the recent Pacific Ocean surface temperature anomalies are related to a strengthening of Pacific trade winds in the past two decades, and that warming is likely to accelerate as the trade wind anomaly abates.

Canadian Ice Service, 4.7, Multiple Methods As with CIS contributions in June 2009, 2010, and 2011, the 2012 forecast was derived using a combination of three methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter arctic ice thicknesses and extents, as well as an examination of Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model, which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictors.

Third, note how the sea surface temperature anomalies in the Western Pacific (and East Indian Ocean) continue to rise as the La Niña event strengthens.

The entire OHC content anomaly when converted from Joules back to temperature in the ocean is on the order of 0.09 C (I assume you can do the math and conversion, but if not let me know and I'll show my work).

The same holds true for a remarkable positive temperature anomaly in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean.

While temperatures remained elevated across the equatorial Pacific during the winter of 2014 - 15, the atmosphere never coupled to the changes in the ocean, failing to bring further westerly wind anomalies, and an El Niño did not occur.

to be consistent, either we should have 100 points measuring the temperature on a specific hour of the day on mountains and in the ocean, and no average world temperature, or we should do the same with CO2, measure high for the day, low for the day, average, and make a global average from many regions, and then define an anomaly on the same interval as the temperature anomaly in order to be consistent.

In this region and off the US East Coast, Ocean temperature anomalies regularly topped 4 degrees Celisus above average.

«In response to the increase in greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, the positive temperature anomaly initially appears in the well - mixed surface layer of the ocean called the «mixed layer»In response to the increase in greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, the positive temperature anomaly initially appears in the well - mixed surface layer of the ocean called the «mixed layer»in greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, the positive temperature anomaly initially appears in the well - mixed surface layer of the ocean called the «mixed layer»in the atmosphere, the positive temperature anomaly initially appears in the well - mixed surface layer of the ocean called the «mixed layer»in the well - mixed surface layer of the ocean called the «mixed layer».

«However, the detailed analysis of the numerical experiment reveals that the absence of substantial surface warming in the Circumpolar Ocean is attributable not only to the large fraction of the area covered by the oceans but also to the deep penetration of positive temperature anomaly into the oceans.»

Overall of course, we do see higher temperature anomalies over land on a historical basis, owing to the huge modulation role that the ocean plays in the storage of excess energy and the higher humidity levels over the ocean.

Given the fact the the bulk of the energy in the TOA imbalance is getting stored in the ocean, yet temperature anomalies over the ocean are less than over the land, for the above stated reasons, the global combined land and ocean (that is, air over the ocean) temperature anomalies actually tend to greatly understate to a the actual effects of the anthropogenic caused TOA anomaly.

southern oscillation a large - scale atmospheric and hydrospheric fluctuation centered in the equatorial Pacific Ocean; exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding Ocean; exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding areas

Given the context of this highly anomalous and extremely persistent atmospheric ridging over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, it's very interesting to note that there has also been a region of strongly positive sea surface temperature anomalies in same the general vicinity for the past 10 - 11 months.

Index Profile of the Stadium Wave: ■ Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)-- a monopolar pattern of sea - surface - temperature (SST) anomalies in theNorth Atlantic Ocean.

Some processes arise through interactions with other parts of the climate system such as the ocean (for example as manifested through sea surface temperature anomalies), sea ice anomalies, snow cover anomalies as well as through coupling to the circulation in the stratosphere.

In July, sea surface temperatures anomalies were already at 1.0 °C above normal in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, and in excess of 2.0 °C above normal across the eastern Pacific — and still risinIn July, sea surface temperatures anomalies were already at 1.0 °C above normal in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, and in excess of 2.0 °C above normal across the eastern Pacific — and still risinin the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, and in excess of 2.0 °C above normal across the eastern Pacific — and still risinin excess of 2.0 °C above normal across the eastern Pacific — and still rising.

RSS also shows a similar drop in temperature above the world's oceans, with the anomaly falling from 0.38 ° K to 0.18 ° K.

Canadian Ice Service; 5.0; Statistical As with Canadian Ice Service (CIS) contributions in June 2009 and June 2010, the 2011 forecast was derived using a combination of three methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic Multi-Year Ice (MYI) extents, as well as an examination of Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice predictors.

Regardless of whether or not the oceans integrate ENSO and portray it in sea surface temperature anomalies, the West Pacific and East Indian Oceans warm in response to both El Nino and La Nina events, so there is a cumulative response to ENSO by a major portion of the global ooceans integrate ENSO and portray it in sea surface temperature anomalies, the West Pacific and East Indian Oceans warm in response to both El Nino and La Nina events, so there is a cumulative response to ENSO by a major portion of the global oOceans warm in response to both El Nino and La Nina events, so there is a cumulative response to ENSO by a major portion of the global oceansoceans.

«The last century stands out as the anomaly in this record of global temperature since the end of the last ice age,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences.

I'm very convinced that the physical process of global warming is continuing, which appears as a statistically significant increase of the global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and also as trends in other climate variables (e.g., global ocean heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.

For central India and its west coast, rainfall in the early (15 May - 20 June) and late (15 September - 20 October) monsoon season correlates with Pacific Ocean sea - surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the preceding month (April and August, respectively) sufficiently well, that those SST anomalies...

Here we use an ensemble of simulations with a coupled ocean — atmosphere model to show that the sea surface temperature anomalies associated with central Pacific El Niño force changes in the extra-tropical atmospheric circulation.

This unprecedented warmth is mainly due to the large positive temperature anomalies in the Arctic Ocean and over the North American continents.

Over ocean stretches with a positive SST anomaly air convection is higher (as the temperature difference between the warm sea surface and the cool air higher up in the troposphere is greater), so a higher likelihood for the formation of depressions exists and more precipitation is to be expected.

The best way to envision the relation between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun - warmed waters far towards the west.

The large interannual to decadal hydroclimatic variability in winter precipitation is highly influenced by sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropical Pacific Ocean and associated changes in large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns [16].

Lamont's Ryan Abernathey and Richard Seager are studying how changes in the ocean cause sea surface temperature to vary, and how these anomalies drive changes in atmospheric circulation to create extreme weather events.

The 1997/98 El Nino shifted Sea Surface Temperature anomalies upward in this area of the global oceans, too.

... it seems clear that no massive ocean temperature anomaly [i.e., cooling] did in fact develop during the historical period [due to Land Use forcing].