First some news on the status of the WUWT Sea Ice Page. The JAXA imagery, which has been DOA ever since the failure of the AMSRE instrument on the AQUA…
Tag: NSIDC
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 5 – SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012
The Arctic sea ice extent forecasting contest is on again. As before I’ll allow readers to submit their best estimates in a poll, and I’ll submit those results as we’ve…
"…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…
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…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 4: NSIDC Arctic sea ice extent touches the normal line
There was a lot of controversy leading up to this moment, as we covered previously on WUWT where NSIDC put a new trailing average algorithm online with no notice, and…
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…
NSIDC's oops moment – uncoordinated changes make for an interesting 24 hours
Many of you are probably aware of some strange goings on over at The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) with their Arctic Sea ice graph, specifically, this one…
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…
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…
Arctic "death spiral" actually more like "zombie ice"
From the AGU Journal Highlights, some news that NSIDC’s “death spiral” has zombie like characteristics, and that the ice may quickly return from the dead, even if the Arctic turned…
Sea Ice News #32 – Southern Comfort
I’ve been remiss at posting regular entries of this feature, and there hasn’t been much happening on the way to peak Arctic Ice this year. The action seems mostly down…
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