Not exact matches
Horta has the typical humid subtropical climate associated
with the Azores,
with significant
oceanic influences, due to the August mean temperature just being above the 22 °C (72 °F) isotherm separating the classifications under the Köppen system.
Ponta Delgada has a borderline humid subtropical (Cfa) and Mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen classification
with strong
oceanic (Cfb)
influence, due to high levels of precipitation throughout the year combined
with less sunshine, and because only one warm month just reaches 22.1 °C (71.8 °F).
They should have realised that top down high solar activity combined
with bottom up positive
oceanic influences would in combination be enough to produce the late 20th century warming without having to invoke a significant effect from more CO2.
By calculating the running total departing from this figure in a simple integration I found that combined
with the ~ 60
oceanic cycles (also solar
influenced), I could reproduce the temperature history of the last 150 years quite accurately.
My link below to article 1041 contains details of my view that the sun drives the various
oceanic oscillations which in turn drive global temperature variations
with all other
influences including CO2 being minor and often cancelling themselves out leaving the solar /
oceanic driver supreme.
The US SW precipitation has been dominated by
oceanic influences (PDO and AMO)
with no direct effect due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols (GHGA).
As to the mechanics of both top down solar and bottom up
oceanic influences on the surface air pressure distribution (and thus the movements of the climate zones) I have dealt
with that in detail elsewhere so here suffice it to say that all climate change is simply the surface air pressure distribution shifting to accommodate those three primary solar and
oceanic cycles.
I think it is time for a general update due to subsequent developments (especially the current 2 year global cooling trend and a quieter sun
with cooling oceans after an 8 year temperature plateau which tends to show that my point about solar and
oceanic influences on global temperatures has some merit) and the fact that I can make the essential points more simply by condensing them into a series of bullet points as follows:
I think Leif looks more favourably on solely
oceanic influences on climate over human timescales but I don't feel able to go
with that as yet because of the size of changes between ice ages and interglacials.
The country thus
influences the flow of the major water masses and results in shelf - edge currents and
oceanic eddies that interact
with coastal waters over the shelf, bringing
oceanic water into the coastal zone.
«A general update due to subsequent developments (especially the current 2 year global cooling trend and a quieter sun
with cooling oceans after an 8 year temperature plateau which tends to show that my point about solar and
oceanic influences on global temperatures has some merit)» - Stephen Wild...