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In-case you missed it. UAH came in very very warm. Unprecedentedly warm for ENSO conditions and 2nd to 2010 which was a NINO.
Open Thread February 2013
The previous open thread has gotten full enough, so here's a new one. We might want to kick off with this animation made by commenter A-Team: His comment: Don't miss this -- it's happening right now, by the hour -- so head on over to 80N 150W. A huge fracture has been opening a bit east of B...
UAH has come in at .51C very very warm for the ENSO conditions, nothing before like it.
Global sst's are very warm too for ENSO conditions and snow cover.
Open Thread February 2013
The previous open thread has gotten full enough, so here's a new one. We might want to kick off with this animation made by commenter A-Team: His comment: Don't miss this -- it's happening right now, by the hour -- so head on over to 80N 150W. A huge fracture has been opening a bit east of B...
Ok, that worked better, please delete my last two posts. [Done, N.]
Anyways these are global sst anomaly's from the same data set Bob Tisdale gets his from.
They are very warm for no NINO or even a positive/neatral ENSO.
Basically 2013 is going to be a top 5 hottest year on record globally.
Looking for winter weirdness 4
Here's a small one, related to the previous winter weirdness post. Apparently China is also experiencing a colder winter than usual. Allow me to just copypaste the entire article from China Daily: China's cold winter linked to Arctic sea ice loss The unusually cold winter this year in China m...
The Atlantic side is in peril.
Overall there is clearly a fundemental base line being reached with heat retention and heat being pumped into the system up there causing Fall Ice to start to fall off as well.
Looking for winter weirdness 2
While the US East coast is preparing for an intensifying Sandy (Jeff Masters has all the info you could possibly want), Europe is being struck by a very early cold snap. According to German meteorologist Christoph Hartmann such early snows in Germany occur every 30 to 40 years (link).* Bulgar...
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/slr_sla_gbl_keep_all_66.png?t=1351416454
Oh and the SLR graphs from NOAA updated.
Some adjustment from Weather.
Some from Thermal Expansion
and Some from the 1 Trillion Tonnes+ of land ice that melted out this year.
Looking for winter weirdness
The Arctic is refreezing fast. Trend lines that were way below all other years for weeks on end have returned to the pack, as can be seen on the Daily graphs page of the Arctic Sea Ice Graphs website. Of course, there's still much more open water now than during the long-term average, and so we ...
Jaxa updated.
I am sure the Sea Ice thread on Americanwx will go empty now since 2007 is 305K behind 2012 and has huge gains right now.
2011 is 505K behind 2012. What a joke. The day 2012 passed 2011 and 2007 there was pages of posts with the denier and "skeptics" throwing a party, you know they only get a few weeks of the year to do so like April 2011. September 2009 and so on.
The excuse for why the thread will go dead will be Sandy.
But we all know the real reason why.
Looking for winter weirdness
The Arctic is refreezing fast. Trend lines that were way below all other years for weeks on end have returned to the pack, as can be seen on the Daily graphs page of the Arctic Sea Ice Graphs website. Of course, there's still much more open water now than during the long-term average, and so we ...
I am with chris Reynolds on this.
In my daily obs of 1-3 hours per day or more the last 18 months, solar radiation is the main killer by far.
Another major factor has been heat transport from the Rockies and SW United States downsloping winds heading N or NNNE into the Yukon and those regions that bring tons of heat.
In 2012 for instance we saw HP set up form the Beaufort warm pool, then July 27th or so to August 4th warm Southerly flow slammed into the MYI.
However the Beaufort was so warm there was no buffer 20-25C air temps plowed into the CA and Canadian Basin.
I'd put Heat flux from the Atlantic at 10-15% over the years with GHG forced feedbacks typically solar insolation as the main cause. lowered albedo and such
NSIDC Arctic sea ice news September 2012
A couple of days ago the NSIDC released its latest analysis for the month of September. For the exact numbers with regards to the shattered record I refer you to the article itself. This graph says it all: The analysis then moves on to some interesting comparisons with 2007. First off, the ...
Hey Terry, how nice or refreshing is it to post here and not have folks treat you like dog bleep if they disagree or you are wrong or post a mistake.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
Those Navy ARC graphs are worthless, don't use those.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/UpTempO/UpTempO.php
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/10/uah-v5-5-global-temp-update-for-sept-2012-0-34-deg-c/#comments
Dr. Fraud has officially got his downward trend back.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/compday-198.gif?t=1349396311
check that out.
We will get more images like that with more and more red showing up.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/10/uah-global-temperature-update-for-september-2012-deg-c/#comment-61877
I am Chris there.
I think it's a conspiracy. I think they have worked on a way to use the noise to slightly alter there data set. They said the warming is the same just the recent extra record warmth is spurious.
Yet there is literally ZERO EVIDENCE of it being spurious.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/compday-195.gif?t=1349393271
NCEP has spurious warming to it appears.
I think climate crook Christy and Dr. Roy have no room left to hold their personal position. And when you believe a lie you will go to the end of the Earth to protect if your self identity is tied to it, and there's is, there entire life's work is tied to this lie.
And there own data set is vehemently disproving it.
While all other evidence supports there data set.
Now they claim up to 0.2C of spurious warming?
I guess the record level energy imbalance globally was changed by David Copperfield.
Unlike Sea Ice there is very few people who can contest what they are doing.
I am so discouraged by this, If I am insane or that bias then I guess I am wrong.
But I can't even find one piece of evidence I am wrong.
On Americanwx of course no one says a word except to act like I am nuts.
Please check this out and give me some feedback.
Record dominoes 11: NSIDC September SIE
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. The minimum records on ALL of these graphs have been broken this melting sea...
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/10/uah-global-temperature-update-for-september-2012-deg-c/#comment-61877
I am Chris there.
I think it's a conspiracy. I think they have worked on a way to use the noise to slightly alter there data set. They said the warming is the same just the recent extra record warmth is spurious.
Yet there is literally ZERO EVIDENCE of it being spurious.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/compday-195.gif?t=1349393271
NCEP has spurious warming to it appears.
I think climate crook Christy and Dr. Roy have no room left to hold their personal position. And when you believe a lie you will go to the end of the Earth to protect if your self identity is tied to it, and there's is, there entire life's work is tied to this lie.
And there own data set is vehemently disproving it.
While all other evidence supports there data set.
Now they claim up to 0.2C of spurious warming?
I guess the record level energy imbalance globally was changed by David Copperfield.
Unlike Sea Ice there is very few people who can contest what they are doing.
I am so discouraged by this, If I am insane or that bias then I guess I am wrong.
But I can't even find one piece of evidence I am wrong.
On Americanwx of course no one says a word except to act like I am nuts.
Please check this out and give me some feedback.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
AMSU Channel 5 temps have ran into fisrt place by about .12-.13C right now over 2010.
Wild, so we are basically at record warmth globally attm.
PIOMAS October 2012 (minimum)
We already knew a few weeks ago that the PIOMAS sea ice volume record had been broken, but with the latest data release by the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington we now know the minimum sea ice volume for 2012, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation...
I haven't been paying close attention at the models, but we might see another period where gains slow back down to the 25-45K per day range for 4-5 days based on tonight's models.
Cold air continues to build but is not widespread and get's bottle-necked over the icepack and towards the Laptev sector. Which will take a bit to cool down even with -15C 850s before ice can explode in growth there.
Large blocking HP's let a lot of cold build south while two areas of heat build into the arctic.
On top of that winds turn towards a compacting regime on both sides excluding the Laptev the 3-4 day. Which leads to the bottleneck.
2007 gains 721,000km2 or so on jaxa the next 10 days.
I honestly can't say how this will go, this is much harder to predict than melting patterns, but giving my best educated guess not prediction, more like guess because of how long chances of being right are, if these models currently prove to be 75% correct or better on what they show for ice forming conditions the next 10 days.
I'd guess that 2012 could gain 300-500K by October 9th.
This would put 2012 around 4.33 to 4.53 mil or 700-900K below 2007 for last on Jaxa.
well see
ASI 2012 update 11: end or beginning?
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 IJIS sea ice extent (SIE) and Cryosphere Today sea ice area (SIA) numbers, which I compare to data from the 2005-2011 period (NSIDC has...
I haven't been paying close attention at the models, but we might see another period where gains slow back down to the 25-45K per day range for 4-5 days based on tonight's models.
Cold air continues to build but is not widespread and get's bottle-necked over the icepack and towards the Laptev sector. Which will take a bit to cool down even with -15C 850s before ice can explode in growth there.
Large blocking HP's let a lot of cold build south while two areas of heat build into the arctic.
On top of that winds turn towards a compacting regime on both sides excluding the Laptev the 3-4 day. Which leads to the bottleneck.
2007 gains 721,000km2 or so on jaxa the next 10 days.
I honestly can't say how this will go, this is much harder to predict than melting patterns, but giving my best educated guess not prediction, more like guess because of how long chances of being right are, if these models currently prove to be 75% correct or better on what they show for ice forming conditions the next 10 days.
I'd guess that 2012 could gain 300-500K by October 9th.
This would put 2012 around 4.33 to 4.53 mil or 700-900K below 2007 for last on Jaxa.
Record dominoes 6: IJIS sea ice extent
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. -...
AMSU channel 5 temps are now running near record levels without a NINO.
A New Climate State: Arctic Sea Ice 2012 (video)
Talking about cool, yet depressing vids: Peter Sinclair from the Climate Denial Crock of the Week blog has produced a new video for The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media (link) that covers this melting season and shows the reactions from several experts: Great stuff. Thank you, Peter!
That map showing 20C probably hasn't updated well with maybe sparse data there?
These temps skyrocketed early this summer when large HP's and warm southerly flows continually pumped heat into the region. The biggest player is solar insolaion.
Greenland is looking to get torched.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/12zECMWF6-10day850mbTempAnomalyNA-4.gif
That's day 6-10 euro 850mb temp anomaly's.
albedo already dropping.
http://www.meltfactor.org/blog/?p=514
The southern 1/3rd at least will continue to pump out melt water and possibly show the dark ice again with heat intrusions like this.
On top of that the NW Atlantic is on fire:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918121551.htm
It's no wonder SLPs don't move around the region to the South this time of year, they shoot up West of Greenland or over it but are slower and pump so much more heat over Greenland.
This is when snow is supposed to pile up before precipitation slows during the dead of winter.
With the freeze level getting to 7-8K feet it won't be snowing.
Models are improving, but can they catch up?
All models are wrong, but some are useful, as the saying goes. However, when looking at how Arctic sea ice decline is modeled, one might be tempted to say that all sayings are useful, but some are wrong. To be fair, I should be the last person taking a piss at climate models. Hundreds of brill...
Everything Ive read says 360km3 = 1MM not 510km3.
At least in the "real world" that's what they say.
Models are improving, but can they catch up?
All models are wrong, but some are useful, as the saying goes. However, when looking at how Arctic sea ice decline is modeled, one might be tempted to say that all sayings are useful, but some are wrong. To be fair, I should be the last person taking a piss at climate models. Hundreds of brill...
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/frivolousz21/00zeurohourly850mbTempAnomalyNA144.gif?t=1347952917
This might hurt it too Terry.
The trade off for chilly September air is not worth these kind of heat intrusions up North
Record dominoes 6: IJIS sea ice extent
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. -...
Thanks Terry, yeah the IJIS stuff is showing ice starting to form. If you don't know I am frivolousz21 at americanwx.
I thought for a moment he was referring to new numerical data.
The Healy is showing colder temps finally with dark skies reaching down to 20f
Record dominoes 6: IJIS sea ice extent
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. -...
where are you getting data for the 16th and 17th?
I haven't seen any updates past the 15th?
Record dominoes 6: IJIS sea ice extent
There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. -...
http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr2data/asi_daygrid_swath/n6250/2012/sep/
More losses coming latest AMSR2 image in concert with modis showing large compaction
Minimum open thread
The reports of my return are greatly exaggerated. I'm still at my holiday address, on the wretched 56K modem. As I'm going to be realy offline now for 2-3 days to visit my 97 year old grandfather and his 400 litre wine cask, I thought an open thread would be a good idea. Can we start speculatin...
Rob,
Holy Mother of God.
That guy arguing with you is not of our reality.
What the ???
Joe Bastardi found a cherry
Now that fake skeptics have dropped the IMS sea ice extent chart to call the results of this stunning melting season into question, Joe Bastardi comes up with another try (hat-tip to Chris Biscan) to imply that the melting season is over, something that is wanted so desperately by fake skeptics ...
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