But it's concerning, because
similar sea surface warming is now well underway as greenhouse gas pollution heats up the globe.
Not exact matches
A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a
similar conclusion: While a
warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.
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.
His rebuttal shows that NOAA's news land
surface record is
similar to that of other major climate datasets, and that a new paper (on which he was lead co-author) confirms its
sea surface data — «Assessing recent
warming using instrumentally homogeneous
sea surface temperature records» in Science Advances, January 2017.
Due to cooler
sea surface temperatures and a synoptic pattern
similar to 2008,
surface warming is sluggish, as anticipated in Pokrovsky's June Report.
It argues that Global Climate Models (GCMs) that show decadal - scale pauses in
surface temperature
warming tend to exhibit
sea surface temperature patterns
similar to those of the PDO in a cold phase.
The
warming in the ACORN - SAT dataset is very
similar to that shown in international analyses of Australian temperature data and very closely matches satellite data and
warming of
sea surface temperatures around Australia.
We show that the Antarctic stratospheric
warming has close correlations with
sea surface temperature (SST) increases, and that general circulation model simulations forced with observed time - varying SSTs reproduce
similar warming trend patterns in the Antarctic stratosphere.