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Category Archives: sea ice
“…the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012″
Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review those predictions when the time is right. In four months, just 132 days from now at the end of summer on the Autumnal … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Jay Zwally, Mark Serreze, NASA, National Geographic Society, National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC, Polar ice packs, sea ice
198 Comments
Yet another error in NSIDC graphs?
UPDATE: problem solved, see below. I wonder if NSIDC actually looks at their own output from day to day? I know that sounds harsh, but the reality is that bloggers keep finding their errors and pointing them out to them, … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, climate change, Mark Serreze, National Snow & Ice Data Center, NSIDC, Polar ice packs, Polar Regions, sea ice
154 Comments
Another sea ice record in the Bering Sea plus April sea ice summary
National Weather Service, Anchorage Forecast Office issued this today: NOAK48 PAFC 032215 PNSAFC PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK 215 PM AKDT THU MAY 3 2012 …RECORD SEA ICE AT PRIBILOF ISLANDS… THIS HAS BEEN AN EXTREME WINTER … Continue reading
Icy Arctic Variations in Variability
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back, I noticed an oddity about the Hadley Centre’s HadISST sea ice dataset for the Arctic. There’s a big change in variation from the pre- to the post-satellite era. Satellite measurements of ice … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, external driver, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Marozke, Notz, Polar ice packs, sea ice, variability
110 Comments
NSIDC fixes their Arctic Sea Ice graphing problem
As I mentioned yesterday, NSIDC had an oops moment, but with the help of skeptical blogs, was notified of the problem and responded timely and appropriately. They posted this update today: Update, April 19, 2012: The nine-day trailing average climatology … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Climatology, National Snow & Ice Data Center, NSIDC
86 Comments
A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – Quarterly Update
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” This format received a positive response in the previous article and apparently encouraged Skeptical Science to take A Big Picture Look at Global Warming, thus this article will be updated on a quarterly basis … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, climate_change, global warming, measurement, oceans, proxies, sea ice, sea level, Sea Surface Temperature, snow, Uncategorized
Tagged Atmosphere, big picture, earth, earth's temperature, Global, Ice, Ocean, temperature, warming
90 Comments
Submarines in the Winter Twilight
One of the more celebrated North Pole surfacings of the USS Skate happened today in 1959, see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-in-1958-not-so-thick/ for more on that and several others. Nearly a couple years ago at the ICCC in Chicago, Lord Monckton noted that at … Continue reading
Snow White Takes a Walk In The Park
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote a post called I Used To Be Snow White (… but then I drifted) a week or so ago about a study titled “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall” (PDF) that … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice, snowfall
Tagged Arctic, Central Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, New York City, Northern Hemisphere, Polar ice packs, sea ice
72 Comments
I used to be Snow White
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a paper out by, inter alios, our good friend Judith Curry. The paper is “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall”, by Jiping Liu, Judith A. Curry, Huijun Wang, Mirong Song, and … Continue reading
Tamino’s Trick
Guest Post by Jeff Condon Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice. He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are. Sorry folks, it was a … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Grant Foster, North Pole, Northern Hemisphere, Polar region, sea ice, Tamino
90 Comments
Sea Ice News Volume 3 #1 – The “Arctic Institute” pwns itself
UPDATE: 3/5 8:30PM PST There’s a hilarious backstory on the sockpuppetry that went on yesterday from the founder of The Arctic Institute – read my comment on it here It is that time again where attention turns to Arctic Sea … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice, Sea Ice News
Tagged Antarctic, Arctic, Cleveland, NASA, Polar ice packs, Polar Regions, sea ice
212 Comments
NASA and multi-year Arctic ice and historical context
Over at NASA, they have a press release about old Arctic sea ice disappearing since 1980, including a helpful comparison widget that splits the before and after for comparison. I’ll run it in full below followed by comments. NASA Finds … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Polar ice packs, sea ice
111 Comments
Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading
Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather
Tagged climate, Climatic Variables, Complex, crowdsourced, earth, Potential, reference page, Variables, WUWT
132 Comments
Was the Northeast Passage first navigated in 1660?
If true, it suggests periods of reduced Arctic sea ice during that time that made this feat possible. Reposted from the blog Ecotretas with permission A graphical comparison between the North East Passage (blue) and an alternative route through … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged David Melgueiro, Japan, Mangazeya, Northern Sea Route, Philippe Buache, Pomors, Portugal, Siberia
68 Comments
Sea ice variability within and outside the Arctic Circle
The essay below is a result of some collaboration between Jeff Condon and myself. I’ve been wondering for quite some time if there was any trend difference between the truly “arctic” sea ice inside the Arctic Circle and the ice … Continue reading
Posted in sea ice
Tagged Anthony Watts, Arctic, Arctic Circle, FileZilla, National Snow & Ice Data Center, NSIDC, sea ice, Walt Meier
54 Comments
Alaska On The Rocks
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach From the “weather is not climate” department, the sea ice is in early and thick in Alaska. It makes me shiver just to look at the picture. They had to use an icebreaker to get … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice, snow
Tagged Alaska, Arctic, Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Deadliest Catch, Dutch Harbor, Fishing, Ice age, sea ice, Unalaska Alaska
172 Comments
The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading
Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power
Tagged climate, Compiled, Complex, conceptual map, earth, Earth's Climate System, Ridiculous, Ridiculously Complex, Ridiculousness, System, Variables
266 Comments
Russian river water affecting the Arctic – AO shift blamed
From the University of Washington Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening near US, Canada A hemisphere-wide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea. Freshwater … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Oscillation, Beaufort Sea, Eurasian Basin, greenland, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, University of Washington
41 Comments
New WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page. For those unfamiliar, a Polar Vortex is “caused when an area of low pressure sits at the rotation pole of … Continue reading
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, ozone, sea ice, stratospheric water vapor
Tagged Page, Polar, Reference, Vortex, WUWT, WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page
81 Comments
NSF just now figures out Archimedes’ buoyancy principle
Just like Archimedes discovered millennia ago, it is well known today that the Arctic ice cap displaces it’s own weight in the water so that when it melts it will not cause a rise in global sea level. Surprisingly, the … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Science, sea ice
Tagged Archimedes, Arctic, Current sea level rise, National Science Foundation, NSF, Polar ice packs, sea ice
157 Comments
Model predicts Arctic sea ice extent
From the University of Washington , some great news if it holds predictive power over time in the face of a cyclic, noisy, non-linear system. Model provides successful seasonal forecast for the fate of Arctic sea ice Relatively accurate predictions … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, forecasting, modeling, sea ice
Tagged Arctic, Community Climate System Model, Polar ice packs
47 Comments
Sea Ice News: Arctic sea ice “may” have turned the corner
UPDATES: New NSIDC data and a press release from them added below. While some folks (Joe Romm in particular) are touting the recent University of Bremen press release suggesting a new record low has been met, declaring record minimum Arctic extent … Continue reading
Final 2011 sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
While I’ve sent this to Helen Wiggins at ARCUS (and have confirmation of receipt), I’m also posting it here for the record. PAN-ARCTIC OUTLOOK FROM WUWT (acronym for WattsUpWithThat.com)
Posted in Arctic, forecasting, sea ice
39 Comments
Final Arctic Sea Ice forecast poll
Poll now closed. Results below will be submitted to ARCUS on Sept 1st. Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’m late … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, forecasting, sea ice
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