Sentences with phrase «upper ocean layer»

Surface temperatures have paused, upper ocean layer temperatures have not: true but I and Andy are talking about surface temperatures.

Research suggests that the heat building up in the upper ocean layers in this region — layers already so primed to support storms — will lead to even stronger typhoons in the future.

Even assuming that the dataset is comprehensive: Considering that the upper - ocean cooling is seen mainly at 30N and 30S, another explanation for this cooling is increased ocean — to — atmosphere heat transfer in these regions (possibly aided by hurricane - mixing of the upper ocean layer, and advection of deeper cold water as a result).

Shortly after an El Niño event there is elevated heat exchange from the upper ocean layers to the cosmos over the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Now I will agree that it is generally accepted wisdom that the deep ocean currents turn over in the period of centuries, the upper ocean layers decades.

Published estimates of anthropogenic CO2 now stored in the upper ocean layers and affecting pH has been based on «the assumption that ocean circulation and the biological pump have operated in a steady state since preindustrial times» (Sabine 2010).

According to the World Climate Report (IPCC), more than 80 % of the heat that Earth has additionally absorbed thus far due to the altered greenhouse effect is stored in the upper ocean layers down to a depth of 1 500 metres.