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Interesting. It seemed to work for me, at least at first.
SIE 2011 update 18: ten yard line
During the melting season I'm regularly writing updates on the current sea ice extent (SIE) as reported by IJIS (a joint effort of the International Arctic Research Center and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and compare it to the sea ice extents in the period 2005-2010. NSIDC has a good ...
You didn't include a closing italic tag at the end of the paragraph you quoted (and, I assume, intended to italicize). You included a second "opening" italic tag - you left out the required slash that indicates a closing tag (e.g., opening tag has just an "i" between the brackets; closing tag has "/i" between the brackets).
I added a closing italic tag at the start of this post, so italics should now be turned off on subsequent posts.
SIE 2011 update 18: ten yard line
During the melting season I'm regularly writing updates on the current sea ice extent (SIE) as reported by IJIS (a joint effort of the International Arctic Research Center and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and compare it to the sea ice extents in the period 2005-2010. NSIDC has a good ...
Paul,
This is the brief explanation of how the sea-ice extent is calculated, from IJIS:
"The sea-ice extent is calculated as the areal sum of sea ice covering the ocean where sea-ice concentration (SIC) exceeds 15%. SIC data of JAXA’s AMSR-E standard products are used for this purpose (http://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/AMSR/products/pdf/alg_des.pdf). The algorithm for calculating SIC was developed and provided by Dr. Comiso of NASA GSFC through a cooperative relationship between NASA and JAXA."
(See http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm)
This appears to be the relevant journal article for understanding JC Comiso’s algorithms:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1196042
SIE 2011 update 18: ten yard line
During the melting season I'm regularly writing updates on the current sea ice extent (SIE) as reported by IJIS (a joint effort of the International Arctic Research Center and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and compare it to the sea ice extents in the period 2005-2010. NSIDC has a good ...
Don't know if this will help, Rob... but try using "compatability mode" in IE8. I'm afraid I don't know how to turn that on (I don't use IE8, or IE in general - they stopped supporting the Mac years ago).
First Forecasts 2: PIOMAS
Commenter Gas Glo has just reported that Jinlun Zhang of the University of Wachington's Polar Science Center has issued a first forecast for the September 2011 average sea ice extent: 5.0 million square kilometers. As it says on Dr. Zhang's webpage: The ensemble forecasting system is based on a ...
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