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
1. Global Temperature Page
2. Last’s week Temp. Anomoly broken down by world region from the climate prediction center (US national weather service)-22 different maps.
3. Series of 22 images:
For CHANGE = 1 to 22; http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/wctanCHANGE.gif
Next CHANGE;
Example:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/wctan15.gif
United States under different Link (And F instead of C):
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/clrtanom.gif
4. All links start from here:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/
Whew!
1. PAGE NAME from above = Global Temperature Page
2. Description = Temperature graphs of 86 cities from the Lower 48 USA, of HadCRUT3 monthly average temperatures as published by Hadley in late 2009 following ClimateGate; The lack of appreciable warming is evident from many of the graphs, plus Urban Heat Island effect is also evident in others. Still others show a noticeable cooling trend.
3. URL for image/graph =
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/usa-cities-hadcrut3-temperatures.html
4. URL for source page/main page where image/graph resides = same
5. URL for supporting data, if any (optional) = HadCRUT3 from
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
a suggestion:
some of these pages look complicated, might give laymen a headache
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. video that might help laymen understand El Nino:
“Chris de Freitas Ph.D., review of what El Nino is”
3. 6 minute video
This continuously updated and animated arctic ocean temperature/sea ice map from the Norwegian Institute of Meteorology could be of interest, perhaps:
http://retro.met.no/kyst_og_hav/northern_anim.html
Maybe on the sea ice page?
WUWT needs an ‘executive summary’ page for people without the time or inclination to follow the arcane details. And, perhaps, a ‘peasant summary’ to explain what the political and economic aspects mean to the citizen and taxpayer.
Hear, hear!
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Typical El Nino & La Nina patterns
3. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/209479main_elnino1_080128_HI.jpg
4. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/elnino_winter.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. NOAA’s animation, Sea surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
3. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/sstanim.gif
4. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. El Nino pattern for winter (Dec-Feb) and for summer (Jun-Aug)
3. http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/images/warm.gif
4. http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag214.htm
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. 3D animation, El Nino/La Nina evolving in the tropical Pacific Ocean
3. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/vis/explorer/t-dyn-med.html
4. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/la-nina-story.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Large 3D animation, El Nino/La Nina evolving in the tropical Pacific Ocean
3. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/plots/gifani/t-dyn.gif
4. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/vis/tao-vis.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Revolving 3D animation “Sea Surface Temperature, Winds, 20°C Isotherm, and Upper Ocean Temperature and Current at the Equator”
3. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/plots/gifani/sst-wind-cur-eqt-20c-med-spin.gif
4. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/vis/tao-vis.html
http://www.solarcycle24.com is a great site for images of sunspots both on the face we see and on the back side. It also stores daily data of sunspot number, key EM outputs as well as the cycle 24 prediction graph updated monthly by a known US scientist. The site is maintained by an enthusiast like yourself and I think it does it well.
The NOAA has good stuff on El Nino/La Nina as well as ENSO. I’d try and find a site which monitors AMO, AO, AAO, PDO and IPWP as well, if they exist. I didn’t find them myself, but then I wasn’t looking that hard!
I suspect that ‘global temperature’ is the most pesky of all and I don’t know of one that is unbiased.
Suggestions for topics (some are above, so seconded)
1. List (reviews?) of relevant new publications.
2. Sea level changes, local plus global, actual measurements.
3. Imagination time – what new instruments need to be put into satellites and why.
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. NOAA La Nina page
3. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. NOAA El Niño Animations and Graphics
3. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ani.html
1. El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Video, when PDO is (+) El Nino is predominant, when PDO is (-) La Nina is predominant
“Chris de Freitas Ph.D., El Nino, La Nina”
3. 2:32 video
3. URL for image/graph
Anthony, several have posted good suggestions for tapping into the business cyber-network for information on the financial aspects of climate change & carbon trading.
I suggest you consider not only a science reference section, but also a policy section that will have links to important sites discussing the financial and political/policy drivers. This is a rapidly evolving process, with much likely to happen on the domestic front now that Cap & Trade has died in the Congress.
I enjoy obtaining the regular newsletter from Point Carbon, the URL for Point Carbon is:
http://www.pointcarbon.com/
They discuss US and global financial aspects, including those driven by Kyoto. This is now a big business, we need to understand how the robber-barons are thinking.
Have a nice day with your family, they come first!
Re: Bob says: July 24, 2010 at 11:25 am
Ones I was recommended were:
The Sun from Space, Kenneth R. Lang
http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Space-Astronomy-Astrophysics-Library/dp/3540769528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280008156&sr=1-1
Explains kinky flux, complete with pictures. Plus lots more about how our weird and wonderful Sun works, and how we observe it. Helped make sense of a lot of the solar conversations, and also contains a very extensive reference section for further reading.
Plasma Physics for Astrophysics, Russell M. Kulsrud
http://www.amazon.com/Plasma-Physics-Astrophysics-Princeton/dp/0691120730/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280008630&sr=1-1
Helps explain how/why what the Sun does affects us. Sort of. Missing a few bits like our atmosphere and surface interactions, but therein lies the mysteries, and why I’m now looking for recommendations on atmospheric physics and ocean cycles. Kind of approaching it the old fashioned way and trying to follow the energy.
Online references are all well and good, but I still prefer a good book I can read in comfort. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but still don’t find e-books that user friendly, especially if I drop them in the bath.
Addendum: Scratch PointCarbon, it is all pay-for-view now! Sorry, the newsletter is worth getting as a free subscription. Cheers, Charles the DrPH
1. PAGE NAME : El Nino/La Nina/ ENSO page
2. Description – 3. URL for image/graph :
– Nino regions –
-Monthly temperature change – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/sst_monthly.gif
-2-week temperature change – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/sst_monthly.gif
-Animation of recent changes – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/surface_anim.gif
-Weekly SST data graph – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/indices.shtml
4. URL for main page – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/
1. PAGE NAME : Solar page
2. Description : NOAA solar/space info
3. URL for image/graph :
– Solar X-Ray image – http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/images/latest_goes14_small.png
– Solar X-Ray flux – http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Xray_sm.gif
4. URL for main page : http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
5. URL for data – http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/
There are many individual bits of data, eg. daily sunspot summary – http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpmenu/forecasts/SRS.html
1. PAGE NAME : Global temperature
2. Description : monthly data series
3. URL for image/graph : n/a
4. URL for main page – 5. URL for data
– UAH
– main – http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/
– LT data (eg.) – http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
– RSS
– main – http://www.remss.com/
– LT data (eg.) – http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_2.txt
– Hadley Centre
– main – http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/
– HadCRUT3 dataset (eg.) – http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/
NB. There is an image of surface temperature anomalies at http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/monthly/anomaly.png but I don’t know if it is regularly updated (I suspect it is).
Anthony – Keep up the good work, you have done a fantastic job. I regrettably missed your Oz tour as I was in Europe at the time. I encouraged some farming friends to go to the Wagga talk but have only just returned home so haven’t heard back from them yet (they travelled 250 miles to hear Eigil Friis-Christensen two years ago, so there is definitely interest in the farming community).
Rhys Jaggar says:
July 24, 2010 at 2:04 pm
The NOAA has good stuff on El Nino/La Nina as well as ENSO. I’d try and find a site which monitors AMO, AO, AAO, PDO and IPWP as well, if they exist. I didn’t find them myself, but then I wasn’t looking that hard!
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Some at: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/teleconnections.shtml
Correction. Hadley Centre main data page is – http://hadobs.metoffice.com/
1. PAGE NAME : Solar page
2. Description : Sunspot number monthly
3. URL for image/graph : n/a
4. URL for main page : http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch.shtml [already given by rbateman]
5. URL for data – http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt
The sunspot number monthly data must presumably be available from the main page, but I don’t see it there. The main page says “(Funding for this database terminated in FY2005 and apparently will never be restored – We will continue to update if possible. Last update 2010/07/02) “. The sunspot monthly data has been maintained so far.