Sentences with phrase «term sea surface temperature trends»

For this reason, a number of researchers have suggested that it should be possible to estimate the long term Sea Surface Temperature trends for a given area by averaging together all the available measurements from different voyages that went through that area in a given month.

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Several studies linked this to changes in sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, but it was not clear if this was part of a long - term trend.
(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.
Like almost all historical climate data, ship - board sea surface temperatures (SST) were not collected with long term climate trends in mind.
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.
These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.
(1) The warm sea surface temperatures are not just some short - term anomaly but are part of a long - term observed warming trend, in which ocean temperatures off the US east coast are warming faster than global average temperatures.
Temperatures measured on land and at sea for more than a century show that Earth's globally averaged surface temperature is experiencing a long - term warming trend.
Superimposed on these long - term trends are millennial - scale fluctuations characterized by periods of low sea - ice and high sea - surface temperature and salinity that appear quasi-cyclic with a frequency of about one every 2500 — 3000 years.
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