SST UPDATE FROM AMSR-E
By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD
The following plot shows global average sea surface temperatures from the AMSR-E instrument over the lifetime of the Aqua satellite, through Dec 31, 2010. The SSTs at the end of December suggest that the tropospheric temperatures in the previous graph (see post here) still have a ways to fall in the coming months to catch up to the ocean, which should now be approaching its coolest point if it follows the course of previous La Nina’s.
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Here’s a visual view of the global SST:
Stephen Wilde says:
January 4, 2011 at 1:42 pm
R Gates said:
“Fortunately, a recently completed long-term study of deeper ocean heat content with solid and reliable data seems to indicate exactly what AGW skeptics seem to want to try and refute when looking the short term SST cycles– namely, deeper ocean heat content seems to be rising:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010JCLI3682.1”
Well, RG, that might be so for the period of increased solar shortwave into the oceans whilst the sun was active, the jets were more poleward/zonal and there was reduced cloudiness and albedo.
All those factors are now in reverse so I don’t see that trend as continuing.
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It will be interesting to see if that’s how it unfolds, and if, indeed, it can be traced back merely to solar influences. As the magnitude of the heating they’ve found in the deeper oceans if far greater than anything that current solar theory would say could even have come from the solar changes during that period, but it does match up fairly well with the 0.9 w/m2 of forcing that Trenberth has calculated has been added.
Re-corking the bottle? That’s illegal isn’t it?
Not in the State of Washington — recent rule change. We are making great strides toward civilization. Don’t know about other places.
“As the magnitude of the heating they’ve found in the deeper oceans if far greater than anything that current solar theory would say could even have come from the solar changes during that period.”
Of course it is. Net solar changes are tiny as Leif keeps telling us. However I have proposed solar driven albedo changes. A very different and much larger kettle of fish.
So-called “Global Warming” has been a huge con-job on the public by leftist non-profits, enabling them to steal huge amounts of tax dollars.
It’s interesting to compare the La Nina data from the Oz BOM. Among other things it suggests a relatively cold 2011 year, and I was surprised by the small lag between ENSO and the global SST’s
Below is the Nino 3.4 comparison; Nino 3 is more dramatic, but I think is less used.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5328413916_5d953c3ded_z.jpg
Oddly, there appears to be a small x axis scale error with the last 6 months being slightly over-length, so the curve should be slightly steeper-down than shown ?
R. Gates says:
January 4, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Stephen Wilde says:
January 4, 2011 at 1:42 pm
R Gates said:
Fortunately, a recently completed long-term study of deeper ocean heat content with solid and reliable data seems to indicate exactly what AGW skeptics seem to want to try and refute when looking the short term SST cycles– namely, deeper ocean heat content seems to be rising:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010JCLI3682.1
Your link is dead. And deep ocean warming is only wishful thinking.
from a site i read it says in last 7 years deep ocean heat content is going down. Now on this one it says its going up,which one is true?