However, scientists do not fully understand the relationship between air and sea temperature, and the melting of ice.
The average sea temperature around Guernsey in the first week of April is 9.5C (49.1F), according to the island's meteorological office.
"The collapse of Antarctic ice shelves is largely thought to be caused by warming of the atmosphere, but it appears that changes in sea temperature and ice-shelf structure are also important, " said Prof Glasser.
This would make them whiter so they reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing the sea surface temperature - which is the primary driver of hurricanes.
But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
Kearns and a team of scientists led by Alan Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service analyzed sea surface temperature data from the agency's polar-orbiting satellites from 1984 through 1996.
This Ocean forecasting system could generate crucial forecast information, such as ocean circulation, sea surface temperature, wave height, to serve the needs of a variety of human activities related to marine hazards mitigation, oil and gas exploration, fisheries, navigation, marine parks management and coastal recreational activities.
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Until the 1940s, for example, ships typically measured the sea's temperature by dunking a thermometer into a bucket of sea water.
We know the exact rate at which seawater expands with temperature, and the expected increase in sea level calculated from the observed increase in temperature matches the observed rate of increase of sea level.
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That raises the temperature of the sea, making the ice melt even faster.
Northerly situated Scandinavia, which gets some of its currents from the Arctic Circle, is home to a lot of snow and cold, with Helsinki, Finland, facing the moisture of the Baltic Sea in addition to low temperature, rating tops in both categories.
It is a collaborative partnership of more than 30 nations from all continents, all working together to provide a seamless global array of over 3, 000 profiling floats moving up and down in the water column from the sea surface to 2, 000 meters and measuring temperature, salinity, and depth during every ascent to the sea surface.
IPCC's worst-case scenario, which is about a 7 degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature, shows a global sea level gain of 10 to 23 inches.
That would take a much, much larger temperature increase, and the rising sea levels would be only one of many headaches.
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The average temperature is above 40C, the sea is like a warm bath, the golden sand burns your feet and the ubiquitous tarmac is starting to sizzle.
In Carneros, the climate is affected by the San Pablo Bay, with its sea breezes and cool fog, reducing the temperature and enabling winemakers to produce wines of ethereal elegance.
Such increased summer melting has an immediate local temperature effect, and it also will affect sea level.
They adjust the temperature and pressure of the mix to mimic conditions at various heights above sea level.
Although the temperature on Ascension has not changed appreciably in the past 30 years, sea-surface temperatures upwind of it jumped by more than a degree in the 1980s before levelling off.
If global temperature rises by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the next century, scientists estimate the sea level will rise seven to 15 inches.
The IPCC Panel's near-consensus was that human activity is having some discernible impact on climate, and that by 2100, a warming earth could result in more frequent storms and droughts, sea level rise of up to three feet, and up to six degrees F. in temperature rise.
In addition to a sea floor mapping project, the researchers will make chemical analyses of water samples that will help them determine the temperature, salinity and composition of a strong circumpolar current that flows around the boundary of the Arctic Ocean.
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