The new Sea Ice Page has been a smash hit since it makes one stop shopping easy for all the pertinent sea ice graphs and imagery.
I’ve had suggestions for adding two other pages of interest. Plus I can think of a third. I could use WUWT readers help in getting them populated.
Here are the three I’m thinking of adding in a format similar to the Sea Ice Page:
- El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
- Solar page
- Global Temperature Page
I’m otherwise occupied this weekend with my family (whom I’ve neglected far too much already this summer due to my Australian speaking tour) so I thought I’d ask for your help.
What I need from readers are URLs for imagery to populate these pages. with corresponding reference links.
If you wish to help, please submit suggestions in this sort of format so that I can pull out the comments easily.
- PAGE NAME from above
- Description
- URL for image/graph
- URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides
- URL for supporting data, if any (optional)
Caveats: don’t suggest images/graphs that may be on private servers that our traffic might overload. The exception might be some of Leif Svalgaard’s excellent graphs (with his permission of course).
Then I’ll use the submissions to populate and add these new pages to the menu structure over the next few days. The current WP theme I’m using allows for pulldown menus, so we can add a number of such pages.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
– Anthony
One I’d like to see is a recommended reading list. Leif and others kindly suggested some reading for me on Solar and plasma phyiscs. Other subjects like atmospheric physics, meteorology and oceanography would also be educational.
Sea Surface temperature anomalies can be found at:
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
and
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/sst/anomaly.html
It’s good to have both of them. The Unisys map has a confusing colour scheme (it isn’t always easy to figure where it’s warm and where it’s cool), but the NOAA one is kind of small and you have to click on regional areas piece by piece to get a closer picture.
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Pacific equator, last 12 months animation loop, sea surface temperature
3. http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/anims/eqp/sst12m.gif
4. from this page: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/eqp.html
El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Plot
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Pacific equator, last 30 days animation loop, sea surface temperature
3. http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/anims/eqp/sst30d.gif
4. from this page: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/eqp.html
El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
Thumbnail for daily equatorial sections from the real-time S3 ocean analysis.
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/thumbnail/images/ocean/real_time/xzmaps/latest/Temperature_Anomaly_thumb.jpg
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/ocean/real_time/xzmaps/
El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
Thumbnail for daily maps from the real-time S3 ocean analysis. The last 30 days are available. Anomalies are computed with respect to the 1981-2005 climatology.
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/thumbnail/images/ocean/real_time/xymaps/latest/Sea32Surface32Temperature_Anomaly_thumb.jpg
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/ocean/real_time/xymaps/
El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
Thumbnail for daily meridional sections from the real-time S3 ocean analysis.
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/thumbnail/images/ocean/real_time/yzmaps/latest/Temperature_Anomaly_140W_thumb.jpg
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/ocean/real_time/yzmaps/
El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
Wave height and wind direction East and West Pacific
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/NPAC-Eastern/WAVE000.GIF
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/NPAC-Western/WAVE000.GIF
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/index.html
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
July 24, 2010 at 8:54 am
“1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Pacific equator, last 12 months animation loop, sea surface temperature[…]”
Looking at the text at
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/index.html
these don’t seem to be measurements but model outputs; the model being fed data from other models (non-coupled models, IOW). Or am i wrong?
My motto is “You have a right to your own opinion you do not have a right to your own facts.”
I like to go to the data instead of “Professor XYZ says”
I have been saving URL’s for use in “debates” for years.
Here are some of my favorites:
#1———-
1. PAGE NAME from above
climate 4 you
2. Description:
Lots of climate info- temperature
3. URL for image/graph
http://climate4you.com/
4. URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides
same
5. URL for supporting data, if any (optional)
none
#2 ———-
1. PAGE NAME from above
Sea Level
2. Description
University of Colorado
3. URL for image/graph
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
4. URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides
Same
*******************
#3-
1. PAGE NAME from above
GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
2. Description
Giss data for surface stations. Raw and adjusted
3. URL for image/graph
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
4. URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides
5. URL for supporting data, if any (optional)
***************
#4
1. PAGE NAME from above
Wood for trees
2. Description
Temperature data and graphing
3. URL for image/graph
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/
4. URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides
http://www.woodfortrees.org/
Monthly I present:
a. Preliminary global and NINO3.4 SST anomalies, that also include weekly data for the same indices. Sample:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2010/06/preliminary-june-2010-sst-anomaly.html
b. “Official” global. hemispheric, ocean basin, and NINO3.4 SST anomalies. Sample:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2010/07/june-2010-sst-anomaly-update.html
c. And a mid-month update. Sample:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2010/05/mid-may-2010-sst-anomaly-update.html
Just let me know if I can help.
I know it’s obvious and many here already use it, but the obvious is often overlooked.
1. Solar page/ Global Temperature Page
2. Shows the global temps on a graph of the various temp recording entities.
3. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/
4. Too numerous to mention.
I don’t know what kind of server Mr. Clark has this stuff on, but his site has been referenced here and other places before. I use the site to spot check some of the questionable assertions which get posted around the web. I think many people do so.
Everything you need is under my Climatic Indicators at my homesite 😉
No sense in throwing in everything and the kitchen sink I say. Welcome to see what I’ve got.
Anthony:
How about a section devoted to “Analytical Methods” with regard the Atmospheric heat balance?
The NASA NEOS (Nasa Earth Observation ) webpage would be a source for some data..
http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html
Although the current “influx” total is around 14 watts per square meter, WILDLY HIGH…
Max
A brief primer on the sun by NOAA is:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html
and by NASA:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2010_03_15/
Lief may know of better sources.
If you believe in the wisdom of the crowds theory it would be useful to add information markets estimates of certain climate and weather events, as reflected by bets made on predictions markets, i.e. Intrade.com
For example,
The minimum Arctic ice extent for 2010 to be greater than that of 2009
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=720038&z=1279989390392
currently traded at 45, i.e. market consensus of 45% probability of happening although it’s a thin market.
OR
Will Global Average Temperatures for 2010-2011 be THE warmest on record?
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=706211&z=1279989562045
On http://www.intrade.com there is a whole section “Climate and Weather”
Among the more interesting contracts is
“Climate Change Prediction: Al Gore versus Prof. Scott Armstrong
Climate Change Prediction: Al Gore v Scott Armstrong. Armstrong to Win”
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=680459&z=1279989617340
THE CLIMATE COOK BOOK RAP SHEET
I was challenged recently to back up my claim that NOAA, NASA, an the CRU have been caught red handed cooking up tempuratures for years, (stretching back for decades and centuries.) I did not know where to begin to look!
On that very day WUWT had two prime examples of the Keepers of the Climate Record distorting global temps upwards.
I know that there have to be hundreds of other examples here at WUWT and elsewhere.
Please catalogue the Rap Sheet of these climate frauds caught cooking the books.
Climate Cook Book Rap Sheet
Please catalogue all the instances NOAA, NASA, & CRU have been caught cooking the climate books!
Solar:
Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (current version of Greenwich System of Sunspot Area System)
http://fenyi.sci.klte.hu/DPD/index.html
Royal Greenwich Observatory – USAF/NOAA Sunspot Data (1874-present)
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch.shtml
Greenwich group and daily sunspot data (1874-1982):
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SUNSPOT_REGIONS/Greenwich/
Composite Extreme UV Solar images (SOHO, SDO, STEREO Ahead & Behind)
http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin9.htm
latest SDO composite w/ spots:
http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/SDO_latestLg.jpg
Umbral/Penumbral Greenwich/Debrecen based butterfly diagram of Solar Cycle transitions
Page: http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin10.htm
Comparison Graph of Solar Cycle 23/24 with SC13/14 & SC14/15 (Umbral Area / 5):
http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/TempGr/uSC24vs13_14.GIF
Following the format:
1. Global Temperature Page
2. Northern Hemisphere Daily Snow Cover
3. http://128.6.226.99/~njwxnet/png/daily_ims/2010204.png
4. http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2010&ui_day=204&ui_set=0
I agree with Atomic Hairdryer that reading lists from knowledgeable people would be a great resource. I am becoming more interested in sunspots and desperately need to know the books and papers with which to start. Once started, I could then keep up. If anyone has a short recommended list, please post it. Thanks.
Solar page
Tracking solar cycle 24
http://www.solarcycle24.com/
Lots of good MEASUREMENTS
Atomic Hairdryer says:
July 24, 2010 at 8:05 am
That’s great Atomic.
Perhaps readers here could read items on the recommended list and do book reviews.
A sort of NYTimes book review section.
WUWT Book Review anyone?
The Hong Kong Observatory web site gives a wealth of information about this often-overlooked part of the world: sea and air temperatures (see the difference between Ckek Lap Kok [the international airport] and Ta Kwu Ling [a largely rural area]), and some excellent coverage of typhoons etc. This part of the globe has some really interesting weather!
http://www.hko.gov.hk/contente.htm
How about a page of predictions versus fulfillments?
We could track the batting averages of people making predictions.
For example, Al Gore’s prediction of an ice less Arctic Ocean within five years.
It would be simple to calculate and verify.
I’ve always felt public pronouncements should be kept track of, as a matter of course.
That way when someone makes a pronouncement, such as Obama saying unemployment is going down by March of next year, one could see a little metric next to their name with their hitting average.
Now what would we call this metric?
PCT – Predictions come true percentage?
TH – Truth hits?
Every time a batter comes to bat, you can see what they’ve done in the past. Not only in general, but this year, this month, against this pitcher.
I have a prediction floating around out there regarding the amount of follow up reporting we will see on the long term effects of the oil spill in the Gulf six months from now. Someone demanded I back up my ‘guarantee’ of the prediction.
This is very important as there is the possibility of my having to buy someone two Coors if I’m wrong.
The physics of GHG and CO2 is a must in my opinion. It drives everything else, therefore an understanding in everything else.
Jack Simmons says:
July 24, 2010 at 11:48 am
How about a page of predictions versus fulfillments?
Heh, great minds and all that:
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/new-predictions-page/