Hansen et al 1988 reported that they expected extra warming in
the SE United States, a theme that was mentioned in his
testimony in Washington in summer 1987. Hansen et al 1988
stated: there is a tendency in the model for greater than
average warming in the southeastern and central U.S. and
relatively cooler or less than average warming in the western
U.S. and much of Europe in the late 1980s and in the 1990s. … We
also notice a tendency for certain patterns in the warming, for
example, greater than average warming in the eastern United
States and less warming in the western United States.
Examination of the changes in sea level pressure and atmospheric
winds suggests that this pattern in the model may be related to
the ocean’s response time; the Atlantic off the Eastern U.S. and
in the Pacific off California tends to increase sea level
pressure in those ocean regions and this in turn tends to cause
more southerly winds in the eastern U.S. and more northerly
winds in the western U.S. … Monthly temperature ano