Sentences with phrase «sea surface temperature anomalies»

The following image, also from that article, shows sea surface temperature anomalies.

The map below show current sea surface temperature anomalies — that is the difference from average temperatures.

One is called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), which is a pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies in the North Pacific.

Other than those four - multiyear periods, the detrended sea surface temperature anomalies for the Rest of the World mimic the scaled ENSO index.

The sequence shows a superposition of sea surface temperature anomalies on anomalies of the sea surface elevation.

It also creates warm sea surface temperature anomalies along the equator from the international dateline in the Pacific to the coast of South America.

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.

(Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of sea surface temperature anomalies as of Aug. 7, 2006.

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 impact of midlatitude sea surface temperature anomalies on the annular modes is thought to be small, at least on intraseasonal suggest interannual timescales.

Meehl, G.A., and A. Hu, 2006: Mega droughts in the Indian monsoon and southwest North America and a mechanism for associated multi-decadal sea surface temperature anomalies.

Warm sea surface temperature anomalies persist off to W and SW of San Diego, but are smaller than in previous weeks over the past month.

«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.

It features sea surface temperature anomalies in the central and eastern Pacific.

«You can find sea surface temperature anomalies online, you can look at the signs of the Pacific decadal oscillations and El Niño as well — the data aren't behind some sort of paywall, anyone can Google it,» she said.

Sea surface temperature anomaly during the peak of the 2009 - 10 El Niño, the strongest Central Pacific El Niño observed to date.

The right - hand graph in Figure 6 presents the Northern Hemisphere GISS sea surface temperature anomalies.

For the ENSO indicators that use an updating baseline by which to compute sea surface temperature anomalies, it would be tough to see changes one way or the other (at least in the indicator).

Shown below is the current Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly chart by NOAA.

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.

This is in agreement with Pokrovsky who predicts below - normal ice cover in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean, based on observed warm spring sea surface temperature anomalies in the northeast Atlantic Ocean.

Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the Preliminary Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update for June 2012, since we'll be using preliminary June 2012 data in it.

Gerland and others also point to a reduction in ice extent compared to last year due, in part, to above - normal sea surface temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic.

Strong, localized sea surface temperature anomalies may reveal that an ocean current, such as the Gulf Stream Current off the east coast of the United States, has veered off its usual path for a time or is stronger or weaker than usual.

Meehl, G. A., and A. Hu, 2006: Megadroughts in the Indian monsoon region and southwest North America and a mechanism for associated multi-decadal Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies Journal of Climate, 19, 1605 — 1623.

Sea surface temperature anomalies reverted «to that seen throughout the North Pacific before 1976.»

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