Sentences with phrase «warming ocean surface temps»

THERE HAS BEEN A WARMING TREND FROM THE 70s THRU THE LATE 90s,... accompanied by other changes tied to a warming trend (record low arctic sea ice extent & thickness, retreating glaciers, retreating snow lines, warming ocean surface temps, increases in sea height, de-alkalinizing oceans).

Not exact matches

Given that the other important variables (sea surface temps, depth of the warm layer, and atmospheric moisture) are all predicted to increase, it seems hard to make the claim that tropical cyclones will be unchanged, just as it seemed unwise to claim that Lyman et al's «Recent cooling of the upper oceans» meant that climate models had fatal flaws.

Source: press release for Myers et al., 2015 Sea Levels 2 - 4 m Higher Until ~ 5,000 Years Ago Imply Surface Temps Were At Least 5 °C Warmer According to the accepted (IPCC) formula for calculating the contribution of ocean warming (thermal expansion) to sea level rise upon reaching equilibrium, every additional degrees Celsius of surface warmth yields -LSurface Temps Were At Least 5 °C Warmer According to the accepted (IPCC) formula for calculating the contribution of ocean warming (thermal expansion) to sea level rise upon reaching equilibrium, every additional degrees Celsius of surface warmth yields -Lsurface warmth yields -LSB-...]

What confuddles me is this... why are both the poles showing increasing ice coverage if the ocean surface temps are so warm?

the heat / energy has to go somewhere... is it any wonder the surface temps, that boundary layer between ocean / air is warm?

Also don't understand how surface temps can be used to calculate global warming or cooling when the vast majority of climate heat is stored in the oceans.

I think this common sense fact has been used by climate scientist to announce: «Yes there is a pause in surface temp rise but the oceans are still warming, without adding.»

CO2 does not warm the oceans independent of the indirect downward longwave radiation mechanism (increased skin temp forces a «deepening» of the convective temp gradient) and the direct method of surface layer mixing.

If we want to see if YOUR mechanism for ocean warming is working as proposed, then we need to look for a reducing temp gradient across the surface layer.

If it takes over 100 - 200 years, as some estimate, to turn over the ocean the warming of the sea surface will continue to warm the deep ocean for decades even if the sea surface temp falls as long as the surface temp remains above the moving average temp for whatever the ocean turnover rate is.

According to his research it's only solid on the surface beneath that it's completely «rotten», indicating to me that the warmer arctic ocean currents are contributing far more to the arctic ice loss that air temps.