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You might ask; what if you changed the temperature of the Southern Ocean or the   North Atlantic, would you get the same land response?\\   The answer is, no.\\   We've found that the tropical oceans have the greatest influence on land temperatures. The reason is   that warmer tropical oceans result in lots of atmospheric convection from the   surface up to about 10-15km above the ocean: the troposphere. Changes in colder   ocean temperatures will not cause the kind of convection that penetrates up into   the troposphere.\\   If you add what we call a temperature perturbation to the troposphere, the tropical atmosphere will efficiently transport that perturbation around the globe, so for a big enough perturbation the Once the warmer temperatures reach the troposphere, they spread   out and encircle the earth. The ocean temperature changes are amplified because   the land is more responsive to these tropospheric temperature changes.             

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