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From one year to the next, the global temperature fluctuates up and down around
an average temperature. If we compare the fluctuations of land surface
temperatures to the fluctuations of the ocean surface temperatures, we see that
the land temperature fluctuates more than the ocean. Why? We might expect
that the oceans are slower to respond to changes than the land. This is
certainly part of the story but we can do an experiment to test how important
this is.
In our experiment, we take a global climate model and we specify the ocean
surface temperatures; we make them vary up and down each year and see how the
land responds. The results show that the land varies *more* than the
ocean temperatures. The ocean variability - which we have input into the model -
is being amplified over the land. Interesting! But lets pull it apart a bit
more.