Sentences with phrase «sea surface temperature change»

Regional patterns of sea surface temperature change: a source of uncertainty in future projections of precipitation and atmospheric circulation.

So, the pattern of energy evolution and sea surface temperature change is already set.

Due to the surface air temperature being tied to the sea surface temperature any change in the resistor efficiency of the air will attempt to prevent that equilibrium between sea and air.

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is a naturally occurring pattern of sea surface temperature change that is seen in the North Atlantic Ocean on decadal timescales and affects weather and climate.

Sea surface temperature change after doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration in a scenario where CO2 increases by 1 % every year.

«For sea surface temperature change, you would have to do it over a very large area and you would have to do it quickly,» he said.

The underlying pattern in this year's fire forecast is driven by the fact that the western Amazon is more heavily influence by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, and the eastern Amazon's fire severity risk correlates to sea surface temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

There are strong competing effects such as changes in the large - scale atmospheric circulation, sea surface temperature changes like El Niño and La Niña and the dynamics of westerly storm tracks that all interact at the mid-latitudes,» said Stanford co-author Matthew Winnick who contributed to the study with fellow doctoral student Daniel Ibarra.

This simulation represents how sea surface temperature changes evolve as a hurricane (seen here approaching the U.S. East Coast) moves across the Atlantic and how the resultant cold wake affects subsequent intensification of the next hurricane.

Part 1: sensitivity to uniform sea surface temperature changes.

When this model is run with a standard, idealised global warming scenario you get the following result for global sea surface temperature changes.

White 1997 finds sea surface temperatures change by 0.1 °C due to the 11 year solar cycle, looking at data from 1955 to 1994.

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

Lindzen and Choi plot a time regression of change in TOA energy flux due to cloud cover changes vs. sea surface temperature changes.

Sea surface temperatures change at many scales for many reasons.

Stephen Wilde (00:59:57) «Also one would need to observe the air circulation systems moving latitudinally BEFORE the ocean sea surface temperatures change and I don't think that happens does it?»

Projections emphasizing relative rather than absolute sea surface temperature changes suggest little change in hurricane destructiveness in the 21st Century [17](Fig. 8).

The National Weather Service operates the «Oceanic Niño Index,» which essentially measures sea surface temperature changes.

There is a difference between a model that tries to predict future average temperatures and a model that describes how sea surface temperature changes cause CO2 concentration changes and depend on the current CO2 concentration.

When heavy rainfall probabilities were next investigated in ensembles of two atmospheric general circulation models, run with and without anthropogenically - induced sea surface temperature changes, results were model - dependent.

With El Nino or La Nina, the changes in sea surface temperatures change the areas where convection, thunderstorms, tropical storms etc, occur systematically.

When sea surface temperature changes — or anomalies — in the eastern equatorial Pacific exceed a certain threshold, it becomes an El Niño.

The new finding of the importance of multiple ocean surface temperature changes to the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and slowdowns is supported by a set of computer modeling experiments, in which observed sea surface temperature changes are specified in individual ocean basins, separately.

Not exact matches

During the IOD's positive phase, sea surface temperatures rise in the Arabian Sea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phasea surface temperatures rise in the Arabian Sea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phaSea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phase.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

Other climate simulations that use sea surface temperature variation didn't match observed changes, either.

«Winds hide Atlantic variability from Europe's winters: Study reveals how wind patterns change along with sea - surface temperatures.»

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

This is a strong indication that agriculture, and not changing sea surface temperature, caused the regional changes in climate during the last third of the 20th century, the researchers say.

So while it may take decades for warming at the sea surface to change deep - sea temperatures, alterations in wind - driven events may have more immediate effects.

Sea - surface temperature is an important driver of the weather, and because the oceans change temperature very slowly compared with the air and land, they form a key, predictable component of seasonal forecasts.

«Today, the wet season is getting wetter and the dry season drier in Southern and Eastern Amazonia due to changing sea - surface temperatures that influence moisture transport across the tropics,» says Anja Rammig from Technische Universität München (TUM) and PIK.

Several studies linked this to changes in sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, but it was not clear if this was part of a long - term trend.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Beyond human activity, tropical sea surface temperatures further back in time are affected by volcanic eruptions, changes in the intensity of sunlight and natural events like El Niño.

Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.

But the ice core - derived climate records from the Andes are also impacted from the west — specifically by El Niño, a temporary change in climate, which is driven by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

The results suggest that the impact of sea ice seems critical for the Arctic surface temperature changes, but the temperature trend elsewhere seems rather due mainly to changes in ocean surface temperatures and atmospheric variability.

Eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures help define a state change that occurred 500 years ago.

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

The climate simulations suggest that these specific anomalies in sea surface temperatures can play a predominant role in promoting the change in the NAO.

Of course, while short - term changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average global surface temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation, in the system.

Ajay Kalra of the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas has identified several regions of the Pacific Ocean where changes in sea surface temperature appear to be statistically linked to the Colorado River's streamflow.

For example, tides, winds and sea surface temperature could disrupt their migration habits, and ocean color — referring to the water's chemical and particle content — could reflect changes in the food chain.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

The data, in the form of infrared images of the Earth's surface, is used to detect changes in sea surface temperatures for research -LSB-...]

The team analyzed an index of sea surface temperatures from the Bering Sea and found that in years with higher than average Arctic temperatures, changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the aforementioned anomalous climates throughout North Amerisea surface temperatures from the Bering Sea and found that in years with higher than average Arctic temperatures, changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the aforementioned anomalous climates throughout North AmeriSea and found that in years with higher than average Arctic temperatures, changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the aforementioned anomalous climates throughout North America.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

The first image, based on data from January 1997 when El Nio was still strengthening shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an associated change in sea surface temperature of up to 5.4 degrees C.

Sea surface temperatures are higher because of climate change, he said, adding about 5 to 10 percent to precipitation levels.