The «warming hole» is a region over the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland, where long -
term temperature maps suggest air temperatures have been cooling slightly over the last century, rather than warming like most of the rest of the world.
Not exact matches
The team developed a design
map that captures different possible outcomes (sticking, self - peeling, or bouncing) in
terms of key thermal properties: drop and substrate effusivities, and
temperatures.
In this
map, blue areas were cooler than their long -
term average
temperature; reddish ones were warmer.
The latest
temperature maps, released today, confirm parts of the tropical Pacific are up to 3C warmer than the long
term average (dark red in the
map below).
This global
map provides a snapshot of regions of the Earth that exceeded long -
term average
temperatures.
What BEST does with the short segments is to
map out short
term trends that they must integrate over time to create 150 year
temperature profiles.
The government's long -
term forecast
maps for this winter retreat largely to what meteorologists call «climatology» — essentially a tossup — with most of North America given an even chance of having below average, above average, or average
temperatures.