So the list of
strongly warming regions in 1979 - 2005 includes North America and Europe, and none at all in the southern hemisphere.
Not exact matches
Here we show that the recent
warming in this
region is
strongly associated with a negative trend in the North Atlantic Oscillation, which is a response to anomalous [natural] Rossby wave - train activity [planetary waves related to the Earth's rotation] originating in the tropical Pacific.
Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling
regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean,
strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source
region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator,
warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic,
strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and
strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.
But according to the data in this 2000 Delworth and Knutson in Science the
warming in the first part of the 20th century was
strongly concentrated in the Arctic
region.
Curiously the
regions where the
warming occurred are also the
regions that are most
strongly affected by solar mechanisms that modulate planetary cloud cover.
In northern latitudes during winter areas like Europe would much more affected by ocean
warming - one would tropical like conditions during the winter in
regions currently
strongly affected by warmth of gulf stream - though the flow of gulf stream would greatly diminished, the ocean temperature would be significantly increased.
Ding et al., 2014 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7499/full/nature13260.html «Here we show that the recent
warming in this
region [northeastern Canada and Greenland] is
strongly associated with a negative trend in the North Atlantic Oscillation, which is a response to anomalous Rossby wave - train activity [planetary waves related to the Earth's rotation] originating in the tropical Pacific.
While the Arctic
region has been
warming strongly in recent decades, anomalously large snowfall in recent winters has affected large parts of North America, Europe, and east Asia.
A
strongly negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation brings
warm weather to high latitudes, and cold, stormy weather to the more temperate
regions where people live.