New Study Sees Atlantic Warming Behind a Host of Recent Climate Shifts

New York Times ^ | August 3, 2014 | By ANDREW C. REVKIN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week’s issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade-plus hiatus in global warming and even California’s deepening drought

Here’s the University of New South Wales news release:

Atlantic warming turbocharges Pacific trade winds.

Record breaking trade winds may have led to hiatus in global surface average temperatures.

New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. Currently the winds are at a level never before seen on observed records, which extend back to the 1860s.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

[jpsb]

cool, thanks

[justa-hairyape]

Apparently these are not Atlantic Kangaroos.

Source from
Kangaroos caught in the snow

[B4Ranch]

http://hint.fm/wind/

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=TX/Dallas

[familyop]

"http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-97.93,35.39,400"

Very nice! Bookmarked. Thank you.