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Figure 4 shows the sea surface temperature patterns for each season; summer is warmest and winter is coldest.

The lower frame shows sea surface temperature departures for the entire globe.

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

This map shows the sea surface temperatures around the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean on March 18, 2007.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00148.1 Global satellite observations show the sea surface temperature (SST) increasing since the 1970s in all ocean basins, while the net air — sea heat flux Q decreases.

Not exact matches

Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that global sea levels in the last two decades are rising dramatically as surface temperatures warm oceans and...

Their data showed that the difference between polar and equatorial sea surface temperatures in the Eocene was an estimated 20 degrees Celsius, about 36 degrees Fahrenheit.

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

«Their results show that you get more powerful hurricanes if the sea surface temperatures are higher,» he says.

«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.

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

At the same time, the El Niño event brought warmer sea - surface temperatures, which have been shown to correlate with outbreaks of mosquito - transmitted diseases.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

A new NASA visualization shows the 2015 El Niño unfolding in the Pacific Ocean, as sea surface temperatures create different patterns than seen in the 1997 - 1998 El Niño.

The study also showed that 4,000 years later — so, 125,000 years ago — sea surface temperatures had warmed up to nearly match today's readings.

The evaluation of the data show a clear correlation between the sea surface temperatures in the Irminger Sea in summer, the amount of surface freshwater in this region and the atmospheric conditions and onset of convection in the following wintsea surface temperatures in the Irminger Sea in summer, the amount of surface freshwater in this region and the atmospheric conditions and onset of convection in the following wintSea in summer, the amount of surface freshwater in this region and the atmospheric conditions and onset of convection in the following winter.

Records of sea surface temperature from oceanic sediment cores, for example, show that the magnitude of warming following several previous glaciations are well - correlated (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html).

Maps showing the differences in sea surface temperature and total soil water on land in the period between October 2011 and September 2017.

Researchers from the University of California Irvine have shown that a phenomenon known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)-- a natural pattern of variation in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures that switches between a positive and negative phase every 60 - 70 years — can affect an atmospheric circulation pattern, known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), that influences the temperature and precipitation over the Northern Hemisphere in winter.

When the AMO is in its positive phase and the sea surface temperatures are warmer, the study has shown that the main effect in winter is to promote the negative phase of the NAO which leads to «blocking» episodes over the North Atlantic sector, allowing cold weather systems to exist over the eastern US and Europe.

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.

As his group described in recent papers published in PLOS One and Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, the surfer - collected sea surface temperatures show that satellite measurements become unreliable near shore.

To be an «extreme» event, sea surface temperatures have to drop over 1.75 degrees Celsius lower than normal, as the map below shows.

Since the mid 1970's, global estimates of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes show an upward trend strongly correlated with increasing tropical sea - surface temperature.

Sea surface temperatures above 78 degrees, shown here in yellow, orange and red, are sufficiently warm to fuel hurricanes.

In this special edition, David Parker, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, and Christopher Merchant from the University of Reading and science leader of the Climate Change Initiative's sea - surface temperature project, join the show to discuss climate research in the UK.

shell size showed a strong correlation with sea surface temperature.

The graph below shows the strong statistical relationship between annual CO2 rise and the strength of El Niño and La Niña, as quantified by sea surface temperatures in the tropical east Pacific ocean.

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that the surface waters of the Coral Sea, which off the Queensland coastline is home to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would reach the record - breaking temperatures last month that bleached reefs, modeling analysis showed.

The red line shows the observations (HadCRU3 data), the black line a standard IPCC - type scenario (driven by observed forcing up to the year 2000, and by the A1B emission scenario thereafter), and the green dots with bars show individual forecasts with initialised sea surface temperatures.

This plot shows thermosteric sea level change over that period, which would strongly correlate with OHC / ocean temperature, and this plot shows surface temperature evolution.

Remember also that the US is only about 2 % of the globe and the global surface record corresponds closely with satellite measurements of the lower troposhere, and also the sea surface temperatures show a strikingly similar pattern of warming.

They show this with an elegant experiment, in which they «force» their global climate model to follow the observed history of sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific.

The graph of ocean heat content shows a slight decline in the year 2010; this co-occurred with a decline in sea surface and a record (or near record) surface temperature.

I believe the jury is still out on the question of the number of tropical cyclones because the IPCC's assessment has so far not included studies on the relationship between the number of tropical cyclones and the area of high sea surface temperature, such as the analysis shown in Fig 2 (1).

The 60S - 60N averaged sea surface temperatures have been relatively flat since 2001 as shown in a personal communication from NOAA, that should be widely available soon.

Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service showed in his lecture on Saturday that the short - term temperature fluctuations from year to year correlate with the heat exchange through the sea surface, but that this does not explain the longer - term development of the «cold blob» over decades.

For instance, Keigwin's NOV ’96 Science paper which showed 4 - 5 occurences higher sustained sea - surface temperatures oscillations over 3 milleniums of core sample averages, vs. our last 100 + years?

Here we analyze a series of climate model experiments along with observational data to show that the recent warming trend in Atlantic sea surface temperature and the corresponding trans - basin displacements of the main atmospheric pressure centers were key drivers of the observed Walker circulation intensification, eastern Pacific cooling, North American rainfall trends and western Pacific sea - level rise.

As I wrote, sea surface temperature data show warming.

The first data series — from calcareous shells of marine organisms that live 50 to 200 metres below the sea surface in the northern Atlantic — shows the temperature conditions there.

Here we show that the hemispheric differences in temperature trends in the middle of the twentieth century stem largely from a rapid drop in Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperatures of about 0.3 6C between about 1968 and 1972.

The model thus shows a fairly characteristic «fingerprint» of sea surface temperatures as the AMOC weakens.

A radiocarbon - dated box core in the Sargasso Sea shows that sea surface temperature was approximately 1 °C cooler than today approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and approximately 1 °C warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval Warm PerioSea shows that sea surface temperature was approximately 1 °C cooler than today approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and approximately 1 °C warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval Warm Periosea surface temperature was approximately 1 °C cooler than today approximately 400 years ago (the Little Ice Age) and 1700 years ago, and approximately 1 °C warmer than today 1000 years ago (the Medieval Warm Period).

And the new curve from our study (dark blue) uses measured sea surface temperatures, as shown in Fig. 1.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

«Computer models of Earth's climate show that sea - surface temperatures will rise substantially this century,» says NCAR scientist Gokhan Danabasoglu, a co-author of the study.

In a study published in the journal Nature the researchers say analysis of sea surface temperature data shows that the AMOC has slowed down by roughly 15 % since the middle of the 20th century, with human - made climate change a prime suspect.

So the infilled GISS data, which extends out over the Arctic, would show the greater warming since the 1970s... until the warming stops for Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperatures and for the low - to - mid latitude land surface air temperatures.

«In regards to sea surface temperature, scientists have shown that across the board, data collected from buoys are cooler than ship - based data,» one of the study's co-authors wrote, adding, «Scientists have developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysis.»