Sentences with phrase «warmer sea surface»

He notes that last year's activity was related to very favorable upper - level winds as well as the extremely warm sea surface temperatures.

As climate change warms sea surfaces, the heat available to power hurricanes has increased, raising the limit for potential hurricane wind speed and with that an exponential increase in potential wind damage.

This study differs from earlier research into possible links between hurricanes and warmer sea surface temperatures by looking as well at the effect of warmer air.

We now have the first results for our Climatological simulations, investigating the influence of removing the «blob» of warm sea surface temperatures off the western US coast.

[21] More male pups are produced than female pups in years with warmer sea surface temperature in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

«We expected the storm would definitely get stronger because of much warmer sea surface temperature,» Lau said.

«One of the major modes of climate variability is El Niño and when we're in El Niño there's a large area of warm sea surface temps in the Pacific,» this leads to more precipitation on the West Coast, Crouch said.

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

The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean during the ancient period investigated than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years, according to the study.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

«While research at the time of Katrina pointed to sea surface temperatures and sea level as causing damage and having a human contribution, other researchers suggested warming sea surface temperatures elsewhere and changing atmospheric vertical structure may have had a countervailing effect, making the overall impact of human activity on Katrina unclear.»

An important reason for all of the snowfall is the abnormally warm sea surface temperatures off southern New England's coast.

It seems that the El Niño - related warmer sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific in late winter cause deep convection patterns to shift eastward.

(Extremely warm sea surface temperatures both in the Gulf of Mexico and off the U.S. East Coast are helping to fuel the present storm's record intensity.

To show you how warmer sea surface temperatures can increase the intensity of hurricanes, here is an animation of Hurricane Katrina (produced by Paul James).

The past few years have seen warmer sea surface temps in the eastern Pacific.

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

It also creates warm sea surface temperature anomalies along the equator from the international dateline in the Pacific to the coast of South America.

Hurricanes derive their power from warm sea surface temperatures (Emanuel at al., 2005) and the oceans have been warming because of human greenhouse gas emissions (Abraham et al., 2013).

«With warmer sea surface temperatures beneath the cloud, the coalescence process that produces precipitation becomes more efficient,» team member Richard S. Lindsen of M.I.T. explains.

The researchers used a numerical model to simulate the weather patterns that created Sandy, with one key difference: a much warmer sea surface temperature, as would be expected in a world with twice as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Both weather forecasters and climate experts have linked the high snowfall amounts to the exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures off the east coast.

The Indo - Pacific warm pool (IPWP), Earth's largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and the hydrological cycle.

Warm sea surface temperature anomalies persist off to W and SW of San Diego, but are smaller than in previous weeks over the past month.

May 1 to 15... We still have the warm sea surface temperature anomaly to the west of California, although it is much weaker than it was just a month ago.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

Analyzing data collected over a 20 - month period, scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the number of cirrus clouds above the Pacific Ocean declines with warmer sea surface temperatures.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.

Most of the previous hottest years, such as 1998, have come with the warmer sea surfaces that El Niño brings.

(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.

«In both cases, there seems to be this association with warmer sea surface temperature, whether it be in the deep tropics or off the eastern seaboard of the U.S.»

Moreover, warmer sea surface temperatures may change the frequency and intensity of those storms.

There is a warm sea surface anomaly that has been persistent in the area between Greenland & Newfoundland for the past few years (even in winter) that may be part of the cause for loss of ice on the margins in the south of Greenland.

Warmer sea surface temperatures drive up evaporation rates and enhance the moisture supply to tropical storms.

At the same time, hurricanes and tropical convection continue to transfer heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, and I assume that warmer sea surfaces will transfer heat to the atmosphere at a faster rate via mechanisms like tropical convection and hurricances.

The warm sea surface temperatures in the gyres, during hiatus decades, indicate convergence of near - surface currents and strong downwelling of heat.