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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I really like the animations here:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html
You can compare how this year looks at the pole to some previous. The end of 2007 is awesome.
By the way, if you ever really want to get an ice machine, check out the Kitchen Aid ones. They freeze a slab of ice and the slide it on to hot wires to cut it into cubes. Really. With reverse-osmosis filtered water it makes perfectly clear cubes the size of dice. Best ice on earth. Why pour expensive drinks over lousy ice? The cost of the ice is insignificant, even which this fancy set-up.
geo says:
July 17, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I’m note entirely sure what geo is looking for, but it seems to me I could write something to update a .png file with with a comparison image comparing the latest Cryosphere image with one from the same date on 2007. (Or 2008, which has an archive image for Feb 29.)
I could put the image in a fixed place in my Comcast area (currently I don’t think they’re checking bandwidth), at wermenh.com (which has an atrociously low limit, I almost moved to bizland.com in May), or at wattsupwiththat.com if I can get to it via FTP (ideal from my point of view).
It means playing a bit with Cryosphere’s form processor, but should be doable and not annoy them.
I already do something like that to get the data behind http://wermenh.com/runnings_2010.html
It’s about time we talk about getting my Tables of Content stuff up to wattsupwiththat.com anyway….
-Ric
Thanks for the consolidated sea ice info. Would it be too much to ask that the NPEO Pole-webcam images be shown adjacent to NPEO’s installation drift maps, too?
(Drift map)
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The map has a lot of extraneous info with respect to just the webcam installation(s), but it might be useful for showing how off-Pole those cams can be.
Anthony
Some more links for your Sea Ice Machine
CCIN Canadian Cryospheric Information Network: Current Arctic Sea Ice Extent
http://www.socc.ca/cms/en/socc/seaIce/currentSeaIce.aspx
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center: Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Environment Canada: Canadian Ice Service
http://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/default.asp?lang=En&n=D32C361E-1
NOAA Arctic Report Card: Update for 2009
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/
FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute: Ice Conditions
http://www.fmi.fi/weather/index_9.html?mode=1
SMHI Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute: Sea Ice
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smhi.se%2Fklimatdata%2Foceanografi%2Fhavsis
all we need is the number of polar bears at any given time standing on the ice or having to swim to keep alive Im am sure this information will help the bears stressfull life
Manitowoc Scotsman ice machines.
As much time as I’ve spent in hotels, I really don’t miss those suckers down the hall humming away all night inbetween bouts of dispensing buckets of ice one clunking cube at a time.
Thank you, your hard work is much appreciated. Other sites just do not compare to this one.
This is a “critical mass” of sorts….of the truth. Everything assembled in once place.
Bravo.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Nice. Thanks.
I grew tired of watching grass grow,
and am no longer too excited by watching paint dry,
but watching sea ice grow should be exciting.
“Baaabe, get me a beer”.
Thanks, Anthony! However, you forgot the always-popular Barrow Sea webcam!
http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam
REPLY: sure why not, and maybe a Gore tracker page too 😉 – Anthony
No need for a special page for that. Just look for areas of sudden cold and snow.
I miss this one from the list:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Area.png
Great idea. It’s bookmarked.
Thank you
Found in: u.k.(us) on July 17, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Too late for that. Once Al and Tipper really broke up he took off the GPS tracking collar she had him wear. Shame really, I heard it was a Valentine’s Day gift.
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From: sphaerica on July 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm
On behalf of those of us on dial-up, I respectfully ask:
Are you freaking nuts?
Anthony you realize the stir amongst the ACGW crowd this article is going to incite don’t you?
They accuse us of not having a sense of humor…. and you of being a grump….
Dare you break out of the mold and develop a sense of humor now so deep into the battle?
🙂
Manitowoc… wow. I’d heard about that previously while researching my family tree.
Some cousins settled there initially in the mid-19th Century. I don’t think they would have liked the cold, coming from central Germany. A great flood of emigration to the USA at the time; often leaving villages largely abandoned.
There was a lack of food and various diseases such as typhoid and cholera rampant at the time. Lots of people died in transit; many even before they got to an Atlantic port.
I’m not looking forward to a little ice age.
Looks like July has seen the lowest rate of ice decrease ‘ever’. Shouldn’t the warmistas, who were, as I recall, desperately excited by the previous month’s reverse behaviour, be celebrating and telling everyone who will listen that ‘It’s better than anyone thought’!
Yet another great feature on the web’s greatest site.
I’m reluctant to suggest other things you could do, Anthony. I can’t see how you find time to sleep. But perhaps someone else could help out by developing a page on our old (but unaccountably, now neglected) friend, the tropical troposphere hot spot!
Wow, it would be really cool to be able to sit back with a beer and some popcorn and watch the antics of that sucker! Real excitement there!
NOAA: Future of Arctic Sea Ice and Global Impacts
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/future/
“computer models predict that by 2035, the Arctic could be nearly sea ice-free in summer”
Hmm, now where have I seen that year 2035 number before?
How about credit where it is due?
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/daily-graphs-and-maps.html
There are other older pages as well.
Anthony: A suggestion. Underneath the JAXA thumbnail there is an extraneous blank line above the caption “Sea Ice.” This makes it hard to detect at first glance whether the caption refers to the image above or below it. (The other thumbnails lack this extraneous blank line.)
Oops– I just noticed the “Mars Today” caption is also preceded by an extraneous blank line.
Lots of useful external links on this NIC IMS webpage:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/
Maybe some volunteers with special knowledge could come up with other pages. E.g. and ENSO page (Bob?), or maybe a sea ice history page(Tony?), etc.
Thanks Anthony.