The near -
surface ocean temperature before the storm's passage was upward of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), and after passage the temperature was still around 28.5 C (83 F).
Are the authors claiming, for example, that if aerosol trends had remained flat for the past 30 years, then there would have been 69 % percent less change in
Atlantic surface ocean temperatures?
Hurricanes require high humidity, relatively constant winds at different altitudes, and can occur
when surface ocean temperatures exceed about 79 °F (26 °C).
Surface ocean temperatures along the West Coast have a strong influence on nearby land weather, affecting air temperatures, and they are closely linked with daily fog coverage.
The surface ocean temperature is a large component of the total global temperature.
If this is the case then this may result in a long term reduction in the rate of warming of land and
surface ocean temperatures.
This created a qualitative transformation in Homo sapiens» impact on earth system trends: levels of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, stratospheric ozone,
surface ocean temperature, ocean acidification, marine fish capture, coastal nitrogen, tropical forest depletion, land domestication and terrestrial biosphere degradation.
First we see the difference between the surface land temperatures from thermometers and the land and
surface ocean temperature.
Observations from the North Pole Environmental Observatory indicate that freeze - up started in late August (almost a week earlier than in other recent years),
surface ocean temperatures are at the freezing point, and a near lack of snow cover will promote rapid ice growth.