Daily Archives: June 7, 2009

Nansen Corrects Sea Ice Data – Sea Ice Extent Now Greater, Near Normal for Most of April/May

By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts From Steve: In May, WUWT reported on an apparent error in the Nansen ice extent data. It appears that we were correct, as Nansen has adjusted their 2009 extent data upwards. The (light red) … Continue reading

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Steig’s Antarctic Peninsula Pac-mann

WUWT readers may recall a couple of weeks ago that I suggested that the weather stations with different climatic influences of the Antarctic peninsula, which might very well merit its own separate climate designation from the Antarctic mainland, was heavily … Continue reading

Posted in Antarctic, climate data, climate_change, space | 73 Comments

A new study on predicting maximum hurricane intensity using lightning

David L. Hagen writes in with an interesting new paper, Maximum hurricane intensity preceded by increase in lightning frequency (PDF). I find it fascinating. It was published in Nature Geoscience on April 6th, 2009 by Colin Price, Mustafa Asfur, and … Continue reading

Posted in hurricanes, Science | 30 Comments