Sentences with phrase «warm sea surface temperatures across»

These records have been driven by the strong El Niño and record - warm sea surface temperatures across large parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

General: El Niño episodes (left hand column) reflect periods of exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures across the eastern tropical Pacific.

Not exact matches

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Warming was not uniform across the globe: sea surface temperatures increased by ~ 6 °C at high latitudes and ~ 4 °C at low latitudes, and deep - water temperatures increased by ~ 8 °C at high latitudes and ~ 6 °C at low latitudes.

The warm expanse has been characterized by sea surface temperatures as much as three degrees C (about 5.4 degrees F) higher than average, lasting for months, and appears on large - scale temperature maps as a red - orange mass of warm water many hundreds of miles across.

During the El Nino, the discharge phase, warm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Paciwarm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical PaciWarm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

[later in the report:] Sea surface temperatures during June 2009 were warmer than average across much of the world's oceans, with the exception of cooler - than - average conditions across the southern oceans.

Specifically, the study found that» [d] uring much of last year's hurricane season, sea - surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic between 10 and 20 degrees north... were a record 1.7 degrees F above the 1901 - 1970 average,» «global warming explained about 0.8 degrees F of this rise,» while» [a] ftereffects from the 2004 - 05 El Nino accounted for about 0.4 degrees F,» and a natural cycle in sea - surface temperatures «explained less than 0.2 degrees F of the rise.»