Articles | Volume 22, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-16111-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-16111-2022
Research article
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22 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 22 Dec 2022

Record-breaking statistics detect islands of cooling in a sea of warming

Elisa T. Sena, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, and Alexander B. Kostinski

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NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) B. Huang, P. W. Thorne, V. F. Banzon, T. Boyer, G. Chepurin, J. H. Lawrimore, M. J. Menne, T. M. Smith, R. S. Vose, and H.-M. Zhang https://doi.org/10.7289/V5T72FNM

MRI MRI-ESM2.0 model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP piControl S. Yukimoto, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, N. Oshima, K. Yoshida, S. Urakawa, H. Tsujino, M. Deushi, T. Tanaka, M. Hosaka, H. Yoshimura, E. Shindo, R. Mizuta, M. Ishii, A. Obata, and Y. Adachi https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.6900

MRI MRI-ESM2.0 model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP historical S. Yukimoto, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, N. Oshima, K. Yoshida, S. Urakawa, H. Tsujino, M. Deushi, T. Tanaka, M. Hosaka, H. Yoshimura, E. Shindo, R. Mizuta, M. Ishii, A. Obata, and Y. Adachi https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.6842

MRI MRI-ESM2.0 model output prepared for CMIP6 ScenarioMIP ssp245 S. Yukimoto, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, N. Oshima, K. Yoshida, S. Urakawa, H. Tsujino, M. Deushi, T. Tanaka, M. Hosaka, H. Yoshimura, E. Shindo, R. Mizuta, M. Ishii, A. Obata, and Y. Adachi https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.6910

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We used record-breaking statistics together with spatial information to create record-breaking SST maps. The maps reveal warming patterns in the overwhelming majority of the ocean and coherent islands of cooling, where low records occur more frequently than high ones. Some of these cooling spots are well known; however, a surprising elliptical area in the Southern Ocean is observed as well. Similar analyses can be performed on other key climatological variables to explore their trend patterns.
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