Sentences with phrase «strong sea surface warming»

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«We expected the storm would definitely get stronger because of much warmer sea surface temperature,» Lau said.

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.

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

The penguins once numbered around 2,000 individuals, but in the early 1980s a strong El Niño — a time when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm — brought their numbers down to less than 500 birds.

In late 2010 and early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually warm sea - surface temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

We do not know what the MOC has actually been doing for lack of data, so the authors diagnose the state of the MOC from the sea surface temperatures — to put it simply: a warm northern Atlantic suggests strong MOC, a cool one suggests weak MOC (though it is of course a little more complex).

It could very well be that general warming along with high sea - surface temperatures have lengthened the tropical storm season, making it more likely that a Sandy could form, travel so far north, and have an opportunity to interact with a deep jet - stream trough associated with the strong block, which is steering it westward into the mid-Atlantic.

The warm sea surface temperatures in the gyres, during hiatus decades, indicate convergence of near - surface currents and strong downwelling of heat.

Screen and Simmonds state in their abstract that: «Arctic warming is strongest at the surface during most of the year and is primarily consistent with reductions in sea ice cover.

Sea surface temperatures in the Western Pacific are well above climatology, and it has been argued that the warmth in the Western Pacific along with the lack of an equivalent long - term warming trend in the Eastern Pacific, increase the chances of a «super El Niño,» comparable to the two strongest El Niños of the past century, which occurred in 1998 and 1983.

One of the top three strongest events on record, this particular warming of sea surfaces in the Pacific coincided with never before seen global heat as atmospheric CO2 levels spiked to above 405 parts per million on some days during February and March.

«With very high sea surface temperatures that have a strong global warming component, these flooding events break records, and cause untold damage,» he says.

The sea ice in the Siberian Arctic is peaking, its effect on the meridional temperature gradient strong, promoting increased zonal flow of large - scale winds, which advect warm air and moisture over the Eurasian continent from the Atlantic and disrupt vertical stratification near the surface and promote high cloudiness, both of which lead to increasing temperatures — greatest at low altitudes and high latitudes.

In fact, MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel first proposed in Emanuel (1987) that warmer sea surface temperatures should lead to stronger hurricanes.

There is growing evidence that warmer sea surface temperatures, associated with climate change, will produce stronger tropical cyclones.

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.

As a result of the leftover warm water, the sea surface temperature anomalies of the Rest - of - the - World appear to shift upwards in response to the strong El Niño events:

In fact, without the strong El Niño events, the Rest - of - the - World sea surface temperature anomalies would not have warmed since 1984:

However, who here believes that warmer sea surface temperatures won't lead to stronger tropical cyclones?

It is possible that «warmer sea surface temperatures will lead to stronger tropical cyclones» will turn out to be true for some regions of the globe, but not others.

The team's findings are controversial because they draw a connection between stronger hurricanes and rising sea surface temperatures — a phenomenon that has itself already been linked to human - induced global warming.

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

These records have been driven by the strong El Niño and record - warm sea surface temperatures across large parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Why the seas surface temperatures of the Atlantic, Indian and West Pacific Oceans only warmed during the strong El Niño events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10.

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

And you missed a point; the satellite - era sea surface temperature record indicates the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific sea surface temperatures warm after specific strong El Niño events, not all El Niños.

that the satellite - era sea surface temperature data indicate sea surface temperatures warmed naturally in response to the naturally created warm water released from below the surface of the tropical Pacific during strong El Niños, and