Climate Suspect in Frequency of Hurricanes Over Last Century

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2007 ;     306 words ......study concluded that warmer sea surface temperatures and altered wind patterns associated...century correlate closely with sea surface temperatures, which have risen by about 1.3 Fin...last 100 years. The changes in sea surface temperatures took place in the years prior to...

Human activities increase ocean temperatures, breed hurricanes: study

Xinhua News Agency;  September 12, 2006 ;     425 words ......institutions has shown that the rising sea surface temperatures of the tropical Atlantic and Pacific...of physical factors, such as sea surface temperatures, wind shear, water vapor and atmospheric...understand the causes of change in sea surface temperatures have focused on ...

Rising sea temps tied to melting glaciers

Sea Technology;  October 1, 1996 ;     243 words ...Warming tropical sea surface temperatures may be contributing to...longterm increase of sea surface temperatures in the tropics and the...researchers, higher sea surface temperatures and atmospheric humidity...

Saharan Dust Has Chilling Effect on North Atlantic

U.S. Newswire;  December 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of the drop in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures between June 2005 and 2006, possibly...hurricane season of 2006, however, sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic remained relatively...on dust's radiative effect on sea surface temperatures, which may affect storms for ...

NASA'S LIVE TROPICAL SEAS SURFACE TEMPERATURE WEBSITE GIVES CLIMATE,...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the following press release: Sea surface temperatures give scientists information about...is a daily update of actual sea surface temperatures. Whenever clouds in the satellite...product is a 10-day average of sea surface temperatures over specific areas. This 10-day...

Using the special sensor microwave/imager to monitor land surface...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......worldwide network of in situ land surface temperatures archived in near-real time at the...above the ground (referenced as surface temperatures in this article) are used for numerous...climate simulations. Hydrologists need surface temperatures to gauge the supply and demand of...

Global warming, major hurricanes are linked, study says.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  September 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......greenhouse gases are raising sea surface temperatures. Because of that, scientists say...In the same period, tropical sea surface temperatures have risen about a degree, it says...models found virtually no rise in sea surface temperatures, said Wigley, who worked with researchers...

Covariability of aspects of North American climate with global sea surface...

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......longer-mean global SSTs and either U.S. surface temperatures or 700-hPa heights in the Pacific-Nor...700-hPa geopotential heights or U.S. surface temperatures or precipitation. Parallel calculations...skill for 700-hPa heights and U.S. surface temperatures came from nonactive or ...

2002 saw record-setting temperatures. (Industry news: regulations...

Pollution Engineering;  February 1, 2003 ;     340 words ...Global surface temperatures in 2002 were the second warmest...warmer globally averaged surface temperatures has been uneven over the...The rise in global average surface temperatures since 1900 now exceeds 0...

Simulation of the tropical Pacific warm pool with the NCAR Climate System...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......System Model (CSM). The simulated sea surface temperatures in the Pacific basin have biases...area of water with the warmest sea surface temperatures. The region is also a center of...of these simulations predict sea surface temperatures that are too cold in the western...

GREAT LAKES TEMPERATURE WARMER THAN AVERAGE, NOAA SCIENTISTS SAY LAKE...

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  August 12, 1999 ;     555 words ......for the high Lake Michigan water surface temperatures recorded in July, lake experts at...week have caused the average near surface temperatures in Lake Michigan to exceed those...higher-than-normal monthly water surface temperatures for the past 18 months. Because...

A Comparison of SNOTEL and GHCN/CRU Surface Temperatures with Free-Air...

Journal of Climate;  June 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......This paper compares high-elevation surface temperatures based on the Global Historical Climate...illustrated. Systematic secular trends in surface temperatures, free-air temperatures, and Δ...that temporal trends in the earth's surface temperatures and those in the free air ...

Warming Trends in the Arctic from Clear Sky Satellite Observations

Journal of Climate;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Satellite thermal infrared data on surface temperatures provide pan-Arctic coverage from...trend. The rms error of the derived surface temperatures when compared with in situ data...infrared data provide skin depth (surface) temperatures and are shown to be generally consistent...

Atmospheric Response to Modified CLIMAP Ocean Boundary Conditions during...

Journal of Climate;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......LGM) climate to prescribed sea surface temperatures (SSTs) that are modified from the...LGM climate. 1. Introduction Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are an important component...atmospheric circulation. Although sea surface temperatures represent a critical lower boundary...

ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......satellite sensors now available. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) derived from satellite data...geostationary sensors retrieve sea surface temperatures with high temporal sampling, resolving...regional analyses at 1-km resolutions. Surface temperatures of large (and medium) lakes ...