Not exact matches
In the past, these positive
phases have
coincided with accelerated global
warming.
Some scientists speculate that the sun may be entering a prolonged inactive
phase, similar to the one that lasted from 1645 to 1715 and
coincided with the «little ice age» in Europe — although there is no evidence that the sun will rescue us from global
warming.
Now scientists from Kyoto University and UC San Diego have discovered that this phenomenon occurred when the
warming phase — «interdecadal variability mode» — of both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
coincided.
Most of flood periods
coincided with the
warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).
Positive (negative)
phases of the AMO
coincide with
warmer (colder) North Atlantic sea surface temperatures.
Throughout the altimeter era, it has been recognized that sea level rise is not constant but varies considerably about the background trend, with the largest of these departures
coinciding with the
warm and cold
phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) such as in 1997 — 1998 (Fig. 2).
The AWP multidecadal variability
coincides with the signal of the AMO; that is, the
warm (cool)
phases of the AMO are characterized by repeated large (small) AWPs.
Only since the late 1970s have we had complete data on global temps and it
coincided with the start of the Pacific entering its
warm phase and the Atlantic joined about 15 years later.
The recent
warming phase also
coincides roughly with the rise of CO2.