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    Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface. The exact meaning of surface varies in...
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    land. The former is also called sea surface temperature and the latter is called surface air temperature. Temperature data comes mainly from weather stations...
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  • air near the surface of the Earth Sea surface temperature, the temperature of water close to the ocean's surface Global surface temperature, the combined...
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    global climate phenomenon that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Those variations have an irregular...
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  • The sea surface skin temperature (SSTskin), or ocean skin temperature, is the temperature of the sea surface as determined through its infrared spectrum...
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    humans. Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface. The exact meaning of surface varies...
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    is often used for Mean Annual Air Temperature of a geographical location. The temperature of the air near the surface of the Earth is measured at meteorological...
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    Satellite temperature measurements are inferences of the temperature of the atmosphere at various altitudes as well as sea and land surface temperatures obtained...
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  • directly reduce global mean sea surface temperature (SST) by approximately 0.2-0.3 °C, milder than global total surface temperature drop, which is ~0.3 to...
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    conditions out at sea are taken by ships and buoys, which measure slightly different meteorological quantities such as sea surface temperature (SST), wave height...
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    Geochemical analysis of skeletal coral can be linked to sea surface salinity (SSS) and sea surface temperature (SST), from El Nino 3.4 SSTA data, of tropical oceans...
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    saltier and sea-ice is disappearing as a result. The process can be seen on the figure on the far right, where the sea surface temperature change in the...
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    Earth (redirect from Surface area of earth)
    mean annual air temperature at sea level decreases by about 0.4 °C (0.7 °F) per degree of latitude from the equator. Earth's surface can be subdivided...
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    Cape Town (redirect from Tavern of the Seas)
    sea surface temperatures throughout the bay are warmer, while in La Niña years there is more wind and upwelling and consequently lower temperatures....
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    Pacific Ocean. This climate pattern also affects coastal sea and continental surface air temperatures from Alaska to California. During a "warm", or "positive"...
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    throughout 2014 and 2015. It is an example of a marine heatwave. Sea surface temperatures indicated that the Blob persisted into 2016, but it was initially...
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  • retrieving sea surface height, a microwave scatterometer to retrieve wind speeds and direction, a microwave radiometer to retrieve sea surface temperature (SST)...
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    marine heatwave is a period of abnormally high sea surface temperatures compared to the typical temperatures in the past for a particular season and region...
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    daytime sea breeze as the temperature of the land approaches that of the ocean. If the land becomes cooler than the adjacent sea surface temperature, the...
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    2004-06-03, Catalyst, ABC Image of the East Australian Current. Sea surface temperature and currents, New South Wales. (These Australian Bureau of Meteorology...
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    Multidecadal Variability (AMV), is the theorized variability of the sea surface temperature (SST) of the North Atlantic Ocean on the timescale of several decades...
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    before 1960, research vessels and stations have sampled sea surface temperatures and temperatures at greater depth all over the world. Since 2000, an expanding...
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    ocean-atmosphere feedback in which, for example, easterly winds cause the sea surface temperature to fall in the east, enhancing the zonal heat contrast and hence...
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    Ocean (redirect from Ocean Sea)
    overhead, the temperature of the surface layers can rise to over 30 °C (86 °F) while near the poles the temperature in equilibrium with the sea ice is about...
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    required for these thunderstorms to develop further, including sea surface temperatures of around 27 °C (81 °F) and low vertical wind shear surrounding...
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    datasets of near-surface and upper-air atmospheric temperatures or sea surface temperatures. Temperature anomalies are a measure of temperature compared to...
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    Kuroshio is a relatively warm ocean current with an annual average sea-surface temperature of about 24 °C (75 °F), is approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi)...
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    Administration (NOAA) monitors for bleaching "hot spots", areas where sea surface temperature rises 1 °C or more above the long-term monthly average. The "hot...
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    contributed to thawing permafrost, retreat of glaciers and sea ice decline. Higher temperatures are also causing more intense storms, droughts, and other...
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    floating on the surface to investigate ocean currents by tracking location. They can also measure other parameters like sea surface temperature, salinity,...
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