Sea surface temperature changes refer to the variations in the temperature of the top layer of water in the ocean. It indicates whether the water is becoming warmer or cooler over time.
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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.
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.
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.
Ilan Koren et al, 2017, Exploring the nonlinear cloud and rain equation The region of the planet
where sea surface temperature change most dramatically is over a large part of the Pacific Ocean.
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.
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.
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?»
This means that in these models, clouds respond to
sea surface temperature changes, but not vice-versa.
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 commencement of changes would be immediate upon
a sea surface temperature change being initiated.
With El Nino or La Nina, the changes in
sea surface temperatures change the areas where convection, thunderstorms, tropical storms etc, occur systematically.