{"id":27300,"date":"2024-03-31T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27300"},"modified":"2024-03-31T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:58:36","slug":"climate-models-cant-explain-2023s-huge-heat-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/03\/climate-models-cant-explain-2023s-huge-heat-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate models can\u2019t explain 2023\u2019s huge heat anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recent posts, you may have noticed that one of the factors we expect to contribute to a very active tropical season this year is the unusual warmth in the Atlantic Ocean. Climatologists have not been able to understand why the ocean there is so hot compared to what we usually expect this time of year. Climate models have not done a good job of explaining it either, which makes us wonder what other climate factors we might be missing. This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00816-z?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\"> article<\/a> in <em>Nature<\/em> explains what the problem is and explores some different factors which may be contributing to the unusual conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/gfs_nh-sat1_sstanom_d1-3-31-2024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/gfs_nh-sat1_sstanom_d1-3-31-2024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/gfs_nh-sat1_sstanom_d1-3-31-2024.png 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/gfs_nh-sat1_sstanom_d1-3-31-2024-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/gfs_nh-sat1_sstanom_d1-3-31-2024-768x743.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent posts, you may have noticed that one of the factors we expect to contribute to a very active tropical season this year is the unusual warmth in the Atlantic Ocean. Climatologists have not been able to understand why the ocean there is so hot compared to what we usually expect this time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":27301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27302,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions\/27302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}