Re:World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecut...
by pasmafaute on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:27PM
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The oceans normally undergo a cycle of patterns in ocean currents which also manifest surface temperature warming and cooling. You've probably heard "El Niño" and "La Niña" during weather forecasts.
The cycle is very irregular and I doubt we have good prediction models for it. However, the observations of the ocean currents line up very well with ocean surface temperature readings.
On it's own, the ENSO cycle would not cause an overall trend of warming. However, it is very capable of being the cause of the "bands in the data" that you noticed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_...
Re:World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecut...
by fallingfrog on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:29PM
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Interesting! Thank you
Edit: the jumps kind of correspond to moments in time when the solar insolation was on its upswing and the periods when it temporarily slowed kind of correspond to periods when insolation was declining, I think however I'm exceeding my training a bit, perhaps an actual climate scientist could tell us more precisely what's going on.