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.
Not exact matches
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.