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Commented May 29, 2013 on ASI 2013 update 1: a slow start at Arctic Sea Ice
ASI 2013 update 1: a slow start
During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Central to these updates are the daily Cryosphere Today sea ice area (SIA) and IJIS sea ice extent (SIE) numbers, which I compare to data from the 2005-2012 period (NSIDC has ...
A-Team;
I believe similar numbers of different names regarding ice and snow is found in the Sami, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian language, probably not Canadian and American they are too young and influenced by too many cultures even way up north. But the Norwegian word ROTEN (rotten) is probably the best word for the general situation in the polar sea, and it is now well adapted into the English language. Like Rucksack, Slalom, Fjord and many other words, not to forget the Swedish word, Smorgasbord.
Commented May 24, 2013 on Collaborative Arctic Sea Ice Presentation Project at Arctic Sea Ice
Collaborative Arctic Sea Ice Presentation Project
Last week I received an e-mail from commenter Terry Moran, also know as Twemoran or TerryM. In the past couple of weeks he has been working on a talk called The Demise of Arctic Sea Ice that he recently held for a small audience in Canada (here is the original presentation on Google Docs, and ...
Maybe Pavlov will give sea ice a break this summer?
http://www.adn.com/2013/05/20/2908652/alaskas-pavlof-volcano-continues.html
Commented May 21, 2013 on The Four Charts That Really Matter at Arctic Sea Ice
The Four Charts That Really Matter
Guest post by R. Gates Recently on Judith Curry's blog, a guest post was submitted by DocMartyn which was a rather nicely (from a math perspective) done extrapolation of past tropospheric temperature trends and cycles out to 2040 and beyond. It was essentially a nice job of, as he put it, "gra...
2013 will be a decisive year, after the record low in 2012, until now there is not much difference between the 2 years from a space shuttle perspective, the only difference I can see, it is still pretty cold in the CAA, but along the coast of Ellemere and Greenland I see potential differences, the ice is literally loose all the way from Amundsen Gulf (Beaufort Sea) to Flade Isblink (North East Greenland.
Commented May 16, 2013 on 2012/2013 Winter Analysis at Arctic Sea Ice
2012/2013 Winter Analysis
The melting season is about to shift one gear higher, and so I thought it'd be useful to have a comprehensive look at this past winter (just like we did last year). As we saw in this recent PIOMAS update, it seems that this year's conditions for ice formation were better over on the Siberian si...
3,014.699 M km2 is my "qualified" estimate, I will not tire you with the calculations behind this figure.
And I expect less than 499,000 km 2 in 2016!
But I still believe the volume figure is far more important at this point in the remaining life of the Arctic Sea Ice.
Commented May 7, 2013 on Crowd-Source Prediction of Minimum Arctic Sea Ice at Arctic Sea Ice
Crowd-Source Prediction of Minimum Arctic Sea Ice
How does the collective wisdom of Arctic Sea Ice blog participants compare with expert scientific analysis in forecasting the September sea ice extent? This question seems worth exploring with a crowd-source experiment. You are all invited to submit, as comments to this post, your best guess for...
Jim;
You are probably aware of, extend/area is not of much interest when explaining the situation, and can easily be manipulated as we see every winter maximum, and we hear the classic "Recovery song", but you are right it has as much importance as almost anything else.
Commented May 1, 2013 on Ice cube volume video at Arctic Sea Ice
Ice cube volume video
Andy Lee Robinson fired up his super computer to produce the video below, and during rendering composed the soundtrack to go with it: I think it's his best one so far.
Now we need an animation that shows how little importance extend / area has in relation to volume, hopefully it will be as simple and pedagogic as the "Ice cube animation"
Commented May 1, 2013 on Ice cube volume video at Arctic Sea Ice
Ice cube volume video
Andy Lee Robinson fired up his super computer to produce the video below, and during rendering composed the soundtrack to go with it: I think it's his best one so far.
A-Team,
Yes I noticed it went true the rocks, but I can at least see 3 cracks on that image, and I can see true heavy clouds today from the swath images, some vague cracks!
Commented Apr 21, 2013 on Perception of the Arctic at Arctic Sea Ice
Perception of the Arctic
There was a time, not too long ago, when I didn't know the Arctic existed. Sure, I knew there was a North Pole and that it was cold there, but somehow I always thought that the Arctic and the Antarctic were the same thing, that someone had forgotten to add the Ant-. And of course, polar bears ...
This frustrating, but trying once more:
What on ice is going on here? 2 or more big cracks are seen over the GIS just south west of Dronning Louse Land / North East Greenland::::::
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=Arctic_r02c03.2013110.terra.250m
Commented Apr 21, 2013 on Perception of the Arctic at Arctic Sea Ice
Perception of the Arctic
There was a time, not too long ago, when I didn't know the Arctic existed. Sure, I knew there was a North Pole and that it was cold there, but somehow I always thought that the Arctic and the Antarctic were the same thing, that someone had forgotten to add the Ant-. And of course, polar bears ...
The melt and disintegration of sea ice is well underway in Kane Basin and Baffin Bay, this can be watched using Modis images and do day to day flipping.
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on On the move at Arctic Sea Ice
On the move
When A-Team is not improving masterpiece paintings, he makes great animations. Here's yet another one, showing the speed with which the cracked ice pack in the Beaufort Sea has been moving in past weeks: The largest crack functions as a reference point. In the Arctic Sea Ice Forum I jokingly ...
OldLeatherneck;
Be careful with these pre-season figures, to say it at least!
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on On the move at Arctic Sea Ice
On the move
When A-Team is not improving masterpiece paintings, he makes great animations. Here's yet another one, showing the speed with which the cracked ice pack in the Beaufort Sea has been moving in past weeks: The largest crack functions as a reference point. In the Arctic Sea Ice Forum I jokingly ...
Not that I prefer cold beers, but UK is famed for "warm/flat" beers, I myself prefers Guinness, because of the albedo effect!!
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on Looking for winter weirdness 6 at Arctic Sea Ice
Looking for winter weirdness 6
I wasn't expecting another instalment in this year's series of blog posts on Winter Weirdness, extreme weather events that could be linked to the decline in Arctic sea ice. It's not even winter anymore officially. But as spring has been revoked in large parts of Europe, and the atmospheric blo...
A-Team and Sigmetnow:
Today April 4:
Pre-Fractures are now clearly seen into the CAA from the north, between Ellesmere and Ellef Ringnes Islands.
I am sure we will soon need some animators cover this story.
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
A-Team,
I am afraid you are turning ASIB from under-ice to mainstream? ;-)
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on On the move at Arctic Sea Ice
On the move
When A-Team is not improving masterpiece paintings, he makes great animations. Here's yet another one, showing the speed with which the cracked ice pack in the Beaufort Sea has been moving in past weeks: The largest crack functions as a reference point. In the Arctic Sea Ice Forum I jokingly ...
Chris;
Does that mean you can get a real cold beer in the UK this season, sounds good?
Commented Apr 3, 2013 on Looking for winter weirdness 6 at Arctic Sea Ice
Looking for winter weirdness 6
I wasn't expecting another instalment in this year's series of blog posts on Winter Weirdness, extreme weather events that could be linked to the decline in Arctic sea ice. It's not even winter anymore officially. But as spring has been revoked in large parts of Europe, and the atmospheric blo...
Jakobshavn Isbræ/Sermeq Kujalleq/Ilulissat Icefjord:
Sigmetnow just did a nice animation:
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,154.msg2500.html#msg2500
Commented Mar 27, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
A-Team
Thanks!!
Commented Mar 26, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
A-Team;
Jakobshavn Isbræ/Sermeq Kujalleq/Ilulissat Icefjord
May we could ask you to create an animation from Modis, where the calving and cleaning is shown .
It is from day 80 to 84?
And post it here: https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,154.0.html
Commented Mar 26, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
Derek,
They have just spring cleaned the Fjord for the season;)
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,154.0.html
Commented Mar 26, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
Ijis;
Below 14 : 13,996,563 km2
Commented Mar 26, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
The Russians are inviting the Chinese to drill in the Arctic:
http://barentsobserver.com/en/energy/2013/03/china-drill-barents-sea-25-03
Commented Mar 25, 2013 on The Climate Consequences of Arctic Ocean Drilling at Arctic Sea Ice
The Climate Consequences of Arctic Ocean Drilling
This is a re-post of a piece on Climate Progress that explains the whole matter from A to Z. Thanks go out to authors Kiley Korh and Howard Marano for saving me heaps of time (image shows Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off Alaska 1/2/13. Credits: U.S. Coast Guard). Adding Fuel t...
Neven;
I discussed the "parked" weather system with a very well known local Arctic scientist the other day, and he also agreed to the findings and was very worried at the same time about what is going on in the Arctic!
Commented Mar 25, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
Reposted from "our" sister blog:
Spring cleaning at Ilulissat Icefjord;
A big of piece of ice that was resting on the southern shore is now on the move:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013084154000-2013084154500.250m.jpg
Commented Mar 25, 2013 on Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack at Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic freezing season ends with a loud crack
This is a guest blog I wrote for Climate Progress and Skeptical Science. You may use it as a new open thread to discuss the cracking event. I will try and do a more detailed winter analysis in April, if Allah and time permit. --- The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to ...
A-Team;
You are right, Nares is not a good melt indicator, we saw that last season, it was blocked till "very" late in the season, compared to previous seasons and what happened? Record low together with calvings Petermann, Steensby and Newman Bugt?
Commented Mar 23, 2013 on Crack is bad for you (and sea ice) at Arctic Sea Ice
Crack is bad for you (and sea ice)
The previous pun - cracks of dawn - was wearing off, and the comment section was getting full, so here's a new pun and blog post dedicated to the cracking event that started in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas a couple of weeks ago, and then moved on to the multi-year ice against the Canadian Archi...
Neven;
A very useful article you produced at Climateprogress:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/23/1766011/ice-breaking-news-2013-arctic-freezing-season-not-what-its-cracked-up-to-be-literally/
Commented Mar 23, 2013 on Crack is bad for you (and sea ice) at Arctic Sea Ice
Crack is bad for you (and sea ice)
The previous pun - cracks of dawn - was wearing off, and the comment section was getting full, so here's a new pun and blog post dedicated to the cracking event that started in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas a couple of weeks ago, and then moved on to the multi-year ice against the Canadian Archi...
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