That sea-surface temperatures are rising is no longer much in dispute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurers Criticized] Reference

These cases, therefore, showed significant correlation with sea-surface temperature (Figure 1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Global climate and health~ predicting infectious disease outbreaks] Reference

Differences in surface level result in sea-surface tilt, a force that influences the ice motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea ice] Reference

For the forams-d13C, changes in sea-surface illumination seem to be the most effective direct forcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded « Climate Audit] Reference

Figure 2: Cholera outbreaks and increases in sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea-surface height (SSH).    From Wordnik.com.  [Global climate and health~ predicting infectious disease outbreaks] Reference

The temperature of the surface waters in the Atlantic Ocean is governed by the flow of sea-surface currents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Ocean] Reference

Hurricanes, too, vary on multidecadal time scales; sea-surface temperature is likely to be an important factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists] Reference

“Coral record of equatorial sea-surface temperatures during the penultimate deglaciation at Huon Peninsula”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pollack and Schrag at the NAS Panel « Climate Audit] Reference

However, over longer periods of months or years, sea-surface tilt can have a noticeable effect on sea-ice motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea ice] Reference

Atlantic sea-surface temperatures and hurricane activity do not necessarily follow global mean temperature trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Gray Presentation « Climate Audit] Reference

Climate scientists fed historical sea-surface temperatures into a variety of computer models of atmospheric change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Roots of Darfur] Reference

It is found that such variations cannot be explained by those of sea-surface temperature averaged over the same region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit] Reference

Each used slightly different methods to rank 2008 based on world-wide land and sea-surface temperatures through November.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic] Reference

A relationship between sea-surface temperature variability and anchovy Engraulis capensis recruitment off southwestern Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benguela Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

Seven of the indicators were rising, including air temperature over land, sea-surface temperature, sea level, ocean heat and humidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study Says Planet Warmed in 2000s] Reference

Some background: Last year, sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic “were a record 1. 7° F above the 1901-1970 average.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » New Study: Global Warming, Not ‘Natural Cycles,’ Played Major Role in 2005 Hurricane Season] Reference

The greater activity results from simultaneous increases in North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures and decreases in vertical wind shear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives] Reference

Sea-ice cover, sea-surface salinity and halo/thermocline structure of the northwest North Atlantic: modern versus full glacial conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

Reconstruction of sea-surface temperature, salinity, and sea-ice cover in the northern North Atlantic during the last glacial maximum based on dinocyst assemblages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

As El Niño caused the sea-surface temperature off the coast of Latin America to rise in 1997, the presence of cholera bacteria associated with plankton was recorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global climate and health~ predicting infectious disease outbreaks] Reference

There were also some interesting results presented related to sea-surface temperature; it seems there is pretty strong evidence for a MWP in tropical Pacific proxies.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGU Fall Meeting « Climate Audit] Reference

The global combined sea-surface and land-surface air temperature for 2008 is currently estimated at 0. 31°C/0. 56°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14. 00°C/57. 2°F.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Siegel: Will-ful Deceit on Climate Change: Three Blunt Examples] Reference

El Nino is an abnormal warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean (as opposed to the La Nina phenomenon which is characterized by below normal sea temperatures).    From Wordnik.com.  [Things we can do to Slow down Global Warming] Reference

However, questions concerning the origin of the relevant sea-surface temperatures and the nature of trends in hurricane intensity are being hotly argued within the profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists] Reference

New NOAA sea-surface temperature figures show the sustained heating in the Caribbean last summer and fall was by far the worst in 21 years of satellite monitoring, Eakin said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Coral Die-Off] Reference

I believe that modern aircraft are able to measure windspeed at flight level with help from GPS, I believe and then use an equation to extrapolate that to a sea-surface speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

During an off-season, the globe sees the rise of "La Niña", wherein warm ocean waters migrate back to the far western Pacific and we get abnormally cool sea-surface temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: What's Up With Hurricanes? In an Increasingly Volatile World, It's Difficult to Say] Reference

Blending a sea-surface temperature SST dataset with land air temperature makes an implicit assumption that SST anomalies are a good surrogate for marine air temperature anomalies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buckets and Engines « Climate Audit] Reference

Stratigraphic plots of relative abundance of selected planktic foraminifers, d18O for Globigerinoides ruber white variety and winter sea-surface temperature estimates in RC 12-10.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moberg's G. Bulloides « Climate Audit] Reference

In its "cool, negative phase," warm water, which causes higher-than-normal sea-surface heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

That note discusses how to reduce a "warming blip" in sea-surface and land temperature data during the 1940s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed] Reference

Park found particularly strong correlations between sea-surface temperatures and CO2 levels in tropical ocean areas.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

On Thursday, however, sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) were not favourable for ` cyclogenesis 'over the southeast Bay waters.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The data on sea-surface salinity will further our knowledge of ocean circulation patterns and the role they play in the climate system.    From Wordnik.com. Reference