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/
Great Page, Anthony… I check in on DMI, JAXA and Arctic ROOS almost everyday and that’s a lot of clicking and pointing. It’s nice to have all those charts and links in one place. It’s still a long way until the melt season bottoms out… or is supposed to, but those graphs are starting to look scary, in a cold sort of way.
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Hi all, I made two new kinds of charts based on the daily JAXA-Dates. In the first you can see the daily development of the anomaly in extent without “eye cancer” 🙂 in relation to the years 2006-2009 and the median of the years 2003-2009 and also in relation to the max and min dates: http://www.dh7fb.de/noaice/image010.gif.
In the second one you can see the development of the daily ice-loss: http://www.dh7fb.de/noaice/image021.gif also in relation to the years b4. Both charts are updated daily at about 04:00 UT.
Enjoy! DH7FB with best greetings!
I’d strongly suggest adding the pole centered 30 day animation from Cryosphere Today. It really gives a far better perspective on what is going on than any of the one dimensional graphs of extent or thickness (which are very misleading, especially now while winds and currents have the melting and thinning ice pretty much stalled in place, so that nothing seems to change, when in fact the rate of melt is progressing normally, if not faster than normal), or single day snapshots which give no sense of the rate of change.
30 Day Arctic Ice Animation
Don’t use the “r”-word !
In climate science, arctic sea-ice going up is never a “recovery”, at best it may be called a “travesty”.
Thank you!
sphaerica says:
July 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm
“[…]Today. It really gives a far better perspective on what is going on than any of the one dimensional graphs of extent or thickness (which are very misleading, […]”
It was good enough in Summer 2007, wasn’t it?
Fantastic!!
How about a graph of the total ocean heat content, particularly that derived from the Argo Bouy data. I bet you could find a nice picture of a calorimeter to show it off.
The way AMSRE sea ice extents is trending, 2010 is exceeding not only 2007 minimum extents, but also 2008, and 2009 by wide margins.
Extending the ever-decreasing slope portends greater than 7 million km^2 at minimum. Will it reach that point? As the IPCC says in its numerous Summaries for Policymakers, that possibility cannot be excluded and is within a scientific certainly of 5% – and so we must spend 1.3 trillion dollars preventing it.
More likely, say at 25% + possibility, is Arctic sea ice extents exceeding 6 million km^2. At 45%+ possibility is it being right near recent normals and exceeding 5.75 million km^2.
no ide a what his piece of shit articlfe is about. wow, i just drajkmk drank two bottles o f scottch.. at least i think so. or whaterver
REPLY: You must be TCO under a new handle
What’s a JAXA thumbnail?
we seem to have lost our dmi polar ice temperature comparison to previous years. Whats up with that?
REPLY: try this new browser feature, called a scroll bar (or scroll wheel on mouse). 4th graph down on the new sea ice page – Anthony
OT
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
“NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
“This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years,” says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). “It’s a Space Age record.”
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.”
http://www.infowars.com/a-puzzling-collapse-of-earths-upper-atmosphere/
Anthony,
Good to see you at the Perk the other day. Working on a Saturday to make something we can all use is appreciated. This is worth a hit to the tip jar. Enjoy your next coffee on me!
Thanks Anthony. The page makes it a lot easier to see and compare without having to run multiple screens.
I will be adding a special link to the page in the sidebar on my blog. Unless you object I will use this image for that purpose.
http://www.leekington.com/images/WattsIce.jpg
I’ve gotten very little sleep lately, so pardon me if this question is idiotic…but what’s that blob (looks like a big floaty arrow-shaped buoy) on NOAA’s Drifting “North Pole” camera? Is it a buoy attached to the camera? Or where my cursor lands on the ice when I move it there 😉 ??
At risk of adding to your considerable burden, how about a SST page?
Just a thought.
Thanks for your oasis of sanity.
REPLY: sure why not, and maybe a Gore tracker page too 😉 – Anthony
Awesome Anthony! Cryosphere at my fingertips.
I did find one bad link. On the “Antarctic Sea Ice Extent” graphs, it links to http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_bm_extent_hires.png .
REPLY: Fixed thanks
Hey! How about offering a cruise to the North Pole? I have some experience with those things that float. What are they called again? Goats! Na, that don’t sound right… Never mind! I can swim real good, and if you hang on to my shorts we’ll do just fine! We’ll take some beach umbrellas and some brewskis. Someone should bring a gun though. I’m Canadian, so they won’t let me have one. We can portage to the McKenzie river delta, then start swimming from there. Bring some Off.
Anthony; thanks again for another very helpful addition. The only one missing from my check daily, well almost, list is CT’s 2 yr. Recent Arctic Ice Area graph. On a related note, I have been operating under the impression that CT and NANSEN used very similar data for their Arctic Ice Area graphs, though I can’t remember where I absorbed that notion. Have I been mistaken in this? If not, why is there such a large discrepancy between the two, a half million km2 or more, over recent weeks?
Great improvement! Hmmm….polar wind graphs?
It’s the 7th thumbnail under the heading “Live Weather Roll” in the sidebar. It looks like a multi-colored roller coaster.
Well concerning ice, I really liked this newer image that is used in Collapse of (Climate) Physics” from July 13, http://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2010/07/collapse-of-climate-physics.html
That’s a lot of thick ice, with a lot of algae, I somehow believe, growing on the ice all the way to the top. Heh either the algae grows really fast in sub zero degrees or that ice has been around for a time.
TLou says:
July 17, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Anthony,
Good to see you at the Perk the other day. Working on a Saturday to make something we can all use is appreciated. This is worth a hit to the tip jar. Enjoy your next coffee on me!
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and another hit
Thank you again Anthony