Tired of surfing the net to get all the widely spread sea ice graphs and images? I got your back.
Introducing the WUWT Sea Ice Machine.
Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice this year, since it appears we have a potential for recovery again, I’ve decided to put all the sea ice graphs and imagery in one handy place for easy nail biting reference.
The familar JAXA thumbnail in the right sidebar now links to this page. Please let me know if there are additional graphs or images that are worthwhile for inclusion.
The page is available on the menu at the top under the header. I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner.
Direct link (suitable for bookmarking or linking to from your website) is here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/sea-ice-page/
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Oh man, Anthony is backed by Big Ice! 🙂
one handy place for easy nail biting reference
Sit back and have some popcorn! 😉
Neat idea. Very convenient and more informative than trawling separate sites. It’s all to hand as it were.
Congratulations on yet another useful improvement.
Kindest Regards
Will multi-year ice be available?
REPLY: Sure, suggestions as to source? – Anthony
Will these be “live” or do we have to go to the actual sites?
REPLY: These are all updated live. When those websites update, so does WUWT’s Sea Ice Page – Anthony
Great idea.
No more nail biting.
At some point it would be good to put up a simple chart showing the estimated
volume of ice and snow on 1. Greenland, 2. The Arctic Ocean, and 3. Antarctica
with the rate at which credible scientists think there is melting and then depicting
how many years it would take for these to melt.
Great resource! Thanks!
This is great. I had bookmarked a number of these sites just to try to stay informed as I read/hear about arctic ice changes, etc. Now I can replace them all with this.
I do have question about concentration of ice in the color plot and sea ice area: how do melt ponds on the ice affect the values? Can the melt ponds vs. open water be differentiated? Or do melt ponds, because it is ‘water on the surface’ count against the concentration?
OT but this has got to be one of the largest systems I’ve ever seen and its 8C daytime which is about 15C below average for this time of year. maybe the extra large Antarctica is promoting more extended cold clockwise whirpools pools deep into the SA tropics…..
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=-25.23999977&lon=-57.52000046&zoom=8&pin=Asuncion%2c%20Paraguay&type=hyb&rad=0&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=1&sat.num=1&sat.spd=25&sat.opa=85&sat.gtt1=109&sat.gtt2=108&sat.type=VIS&riv=0&mm=0&hur=0
REPLY: Broken link
Anthony–
I love you, man. <>
Don’t know if it is at all a reasonable request, but some way to show the most recent Cryosphere comparo images for current year vs an interesting baseline year (2007? 2008? Alas, 2009 is not available) would be greatly appreciated.
That might be a technical bridge too far, and I understand that. But maybe not, as they seem to be sticking them in an archive with a constant naming scheme. . .
REPLY: that requires some custom code, like Javascript, and wp.com hosting doesn’t allow that unfortunately. – Anthony
Well, I could see popping their tool would, but would calculating a date to use as a substition string?
The format for all their images is this: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20100715.jpg But of course they are always at least a day-behind on the current year, and lately for some reason two days behind, so you’d need to be able to subtract two.
Anyway, just a suggestion.
REPLY: maybe somebody could host some code on an external server that could generate a live image URL for WUWT? WP.com limits even basic coding in pages. -Anthony
These might be helpful to add for the Antarctic;
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/ice_ext_s.png
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_bm_extent_hires.png
and here are the Arctic versions as well:
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/ice_ext_n.png
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_bm_extent_hires.png
Also, a source guide at the bottom might be valuable, e.g.:
The Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):
http://nsidc.org/
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/
http://nsidc.org/searchlight/
University of Bremenpart
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/eng/
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/iuppage/psa/2001/amsrop.html
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/
International Arctic Research Center/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA)
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/
Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
http://ocean.dmi.dk/english/index.php
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/index.uk.php
REPLY: And I’m reminded by this that I forgot NANSEN too. Thanks -Anthony
Thank you so very much sir.
Multi year-ice (it’s all ambigious now)
http://saf.met.no/p/ice/nh/type/imgs/OSI_HL_SAF_201007161200_pal.jpg
I like it. One stop shopping.
Wheres the polar bears???WHERES THE POLAR BEARS???
There’s only one word for this…Cool!
Thanks Anthony
Exellent stuff! Just what the doctor ordered. When battling with warmists I can simply ask them to look at 1 link with their own lying eyes (I hope while biting nails).
REPLY: Use the shortlink URL for this page: http://wp.me/P7y4l-5Kc
Thank you very much! Bookmarked
cryosphere arctic regions down the bottom for us with a very serious habit?
REPLY: Not interested in arguments over placement, take it or leave it. Beggars can’t be choosy, especially when I dedicate my Saturday to providing a public service – Anthony
The two graphs I like are the arctic and antarctic anomalies in million square kilometers with the zero line being the 1978-2000 average.
If those two were sequential it would be real easy to see the that negative anomaly at the north pole is matched by an equal and opposite positive anomaly at the south pole.
Kind of puts things in perspective and makes me think of Newton’s third law of motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Sweet! Excellent work as always! If only everyone interested in global warming and AGW would look at ALL of the data (as is presented here) rather than just the select data that fits preconceived notions.
Thanks Anthony!
Very nice.
How about a solar page?
Not to sound ungrateful.
You do so much already, I really appreciate your work. Thanks for all you do.
REPLY: Why you ungrateful little #@^&(#4! …uh OK – Anthony
Dave Springer says:
July 17, 2010 at 1:58 pm
“The two graphs I like are the arctic and antarctic anomalies in million square kilometers with the zero line being the 1978-2000 average.
If those two were sequential it would be real easy to see the that negative anomaly at the north pole is matched by an equal and opposite positive anomaly at the south pole.
Kind of puts things in perspective and makes me think of Newton’s third law of motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Ideally Cryosphere Today and NSIDC would offer merged Arctic and Antarctic charts like rbateman developed:
http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/seaice.anomaly.Ant_arctic.jpg
Perhaps if we ask Cryoshoere Today:
cryosphere-data@atmos.uiuc.edu
and NSIDC;
http://nsidc.org/forms/asna.html
nicely, they might be inclined to begin offering this information on their websites.
Love the cam at the north pole showing the poly bears basking in the hot summer sun with their sun umbrellas and all! But, any way to get the ice and snow off of the lense? /sarc
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Anthony!