Sunshine hours writes:
I have been a bit worried about the deep deep dive in Antarctica Sea Ice Extent.
It appears to be a processing or sensor error. As of today the NSIDC data confirms it. (see image below)
In a deja vu all over again moment, I find that it isn’t just the Antarctic with wonky readings.
I agree that looks like a sensor failure of some sorts, and this NSIDC graph looks a bit odd as well. NSIDC uses a 5 day average, so the transients get smoothed out.
![S_stddev_timeseries[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/s_stddev_timeseries1.png)
This Arctic graph from DMI has what appears to be a spurious element also, note the recent uptick:
![icecover_current_new[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/icecover_current_new1.png)
(added: that uptick could be wind affecting the ice extent, or it could be a sensor/processing issue, we simply don’t know)
Tomorrow there will be a new paper released by former NSIDC scientist Walt Meier and others that tries to argue that some of the record sea ice extents from Antarctica recently are a victim of an adjustment in a processing algorithm that changed in 2007 from Version 1 to Version 2.
Back in 2009, in the “deja vu moment” I wrote:
In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News page. The image below was the reason, dozens of people called my attention to it in emails and comments overnight because in the space of a weekend, a million-plus square kilometers of Arctic sea ice went missing.
Walt Meier wrote this response that he later had to eat crow for:
Thus errors do happen from time to time and one shouldn’t draw any dramatic conclusions from recent data.
I’m not sure why you think things like this are worth blogging about. Data is not perfect, especially near real-time data. That’s not news.
Now, Meier has an entire paper about such errors, and the error is far lower in magnitude than that incident where the sensor actually did fail and NSIDC was caught napping.
It makes me wonder just how good these estimates of sea ice are; what else awaits discovery?
I wish they’d exhibit the same investigative zeal when it comes to looking at Arctic sea ice record low extents, for all we know, the 2007 low extent might also be a victim of the same algorithm shift that occurred that year.
But you see, confirmation bias prevents such investigations, they expect the Arctic to be low, so they only looked at the Antarctic where there’s more ice than there is supposed to be. To paraphrase their viewpoint on it: “it didn’t look right”.
On the plus side, it looks like this means the AR4 and AR5 reports are wrong about sea ice extent values, and as we know IPCC reports are wrong about a lot of things.
We’ll have that new paper here at 6AM ET tomorrow.
Reblogged this on Centinel2012 and commented:
It’s very simple if it comes from Washington DC or any government entities don’t believe it unless you personally check it out. NASA NOAA and the EPA are the worst of the lot — all behind the deceitful White House of course.
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“This Arctic graph from DMI has what appears to be a spurious element also, note the recent uptick:”
I have to disagree and tweeted about it this am.
https://twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/491164231904280576
Also I see the connections with large solar TSI spikes and recent slowdown and Pause in Antarctic sea ice growth.
I see what you did there. BiPOLAR disorder? Rofl!
I think the data is accurate . If you watch the AAO the sea ice expands when it is strongly negative and contracts when strongly positive.
I noted that 2010 and 2013 also had the same “uptick” and about the same time. It could be instrumental, but then it would appear to be consistent.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
Shows rapid chances to be common. Look at the graphs from past years. I see nothing much different this year compared to past years.
For my money I bet Antarctic Sea Ice will make another record run with this data now in use.
Did notice that and found quite odd that the 2014 line matches, almost perfectly, the 2013 after the drop. I have been following the trends for some time now and they behave as they are supposed to. There is some similarity in their behaviour, obviously, as these are seasonal trends. But the chances of two set of data matching that closely, after they were apart, are low. Nature tends to behave differently at every step of the way, within a certain range of course, but never the exact same.
I looked to see if I could find any news regarding storms or other phenomena that could have caused such a huge calving but came out with nothing.
The up tick on DMI seems to be the only one with such a steep pitch, thus leads me to believe it is some sort of error. The rest seem to ascertain there is some gain, although they also seem a little on the high side.
As much as I dislike being negative or prone to think there is foul play, I wonder if we are now going to hear some alarmist news regarding this in an attempt to strengthen their dying cause. Somebody is certain to get some funding to research this?
The dmi ‘15% or more ice’ graph uptick Is likely wind.
here is the ice drift and speed for 7/20
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrf/nowcast/icespddrf2014071918_2014072000_039_arcticicespddrf.001.gif
There has been two modest low pressure systems; one in the Canadian archipelago and the other just north of Alaska
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/weather/arcticweather.uk.php
This is what I see, just a coincidence???
https://twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/489444625481216000/photo/1
The simplest explanation for dips and upticks in the extent graph is that the ice can spread out and be crushed back together, (an accordion effect) which makes little difference in the “area” graph but a big difference in the “extent” graph. By comparing the two figures you can get an idea how condensed the ice pack is. While lurking at an Alarmist site I saw they had created a neat area-over-extent calculation that basically measures the percentage of ice-versus-water, and this year the ice pack over the entire Pole is up near 80 %, which is higher than any recent year. (Some consternation at that site.)
Another explanation may be incorrect. (I’m sure someone here will tell me if I am wrong.) However when you run the neat animation (found below the daily map of concentration on Anthony’s splendid Sea Ice Page) of the Naval Research Laboratory ice-concentration maps you can often see the hues of very large areas pale from red to orange or even yellow, and then blush back to red, in a matter of a few days. As this represents a change from 90% coverage to 60% coverage and back to 90% coverage, and it is physically impossible for the ice itself to melt and refreeze to such a large degree so swiftly, some have suggested the satellite sensors get confused by the difference between open water, and melt-water pools. Some even suggest the sensors get confused by slush and wet snow. One person commented they change the sensors from winter-mode to summer-mode to deal with this problem, which creates an artificial dip or upturn in and of itself. Yet another person suggested they look at both Poles with the same sensors, or at least the same sensor-mode-adjustment, so if they switch to summer-mode to look at one Pole it effects the other Pole’s data.
I’d like to learn more about this subject, so if anyone knows more, please inform us amateurs who merely look at charts and maps, with no idea how they come up with them.
http://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/arctic-sea-ice-melt-flat-lining-death-spiral/
Perhaps this would be an opportune time to elaborate on how sea ice extent is actually (technically) calculated and how that process has evolved over time?
Little off topic but has to do with Antarctic sea ice. Piece Joe D’aleo did years ago on solar and Antarctic sea oic is on page 259..
http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/pdfs/Chap10Elsevier.pdf
NSDIC News release on July 17 2014,
I did not see it until today.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2014/07/melting-in-the-north-freezing-in-the-south/
Some lunch time results on process and changes. Don’t overlook the FAQ sections 🙂
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice/index.html
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02135_seaice_index/
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/
njsnowfan says: “Recent solar spikes Match up to the Sea Ice Chart ”
how about you plot those data instead of some vague photoshop artwork. Drawing elispes and linking bubbles is so unscientific it’s hardly worth posting.
Now if you can get some data and plot them both on the same graph so we can see how well it matches and possibly identify any lag between the two, you may be on to something.
I think a lot of climate variability actually _starts_ in the Arctic ( polar amplification is a misinterpretation ). But if you think you have something, go and dig the data and plot it.
I’m not even prepared to be curious on the basis of artwork lash-ups.
Average Arctic Buoys on this site is showing 0C average over the area. Colder then normal
http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil/newdata.htm
Anthony, would be nice if you could add the 2 these to you Arctic Sea Ice Page..
http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil/newdata.htm
http://obuoy.datatransport.org/monitor#overview/gpstracks
Oh, furchrisakes! What is wrong with that last post? I can not see anything that is even vaguely likely to trip moderation there.
This site is becoming a PITA to post to. Every second time I post something gets stuck in moderation.
AH, just spotted a finger slip in my login, maybe that’s it.
njsnowfan says: “Recent solar spikes Match up to the Sea Ice Chart ”
how about you plot those data instead of some vague photoshop artwork. Drawing elispes and linking bubbles is so unscientific it’s hardly worth posting.
Now if you can get some data and plot them both on the same graph so we can see how well it matches and possibly identify any lag between the two, you may be on to something.
I think a lot of climate variability actually _starts_ in the Arctic ( polar amplification is a misinterpretation ). But if you think you have something, go and dig the data and plot it.
I’m not even prepared to be curious on the basis of artwork lash-ups.
Some time ago, a commentator claimed that sometime during the [year], there is a need to change the way the algorithm works; something about the angle of the observations creating confusion about what is open water versus ice. I was reading about it shortly before the June dive in the Arctic extent, which seemed odd at the time given the below average temps at the North Pole.
I hope that commentator will weigh in again, especially if they have any insight into what is going on now.
Just a silly pedantic point but “the data is not perfect”….neither is the English – surely it’s the data are nor perfect”?!
ossqss,
I have to laugh at the ridculous PIOMAS propaganda in your link above. Their Arctic chart makes it look like ice cover will hit zero any minute now.
But they never post a graph of the Antarctic. Here is a graph of the Antarctic.
Global ice is at its 30-year average. There is nothing unusual or unprecedented happening. “Ice” is the last, forlorn hope of the alarmist clique. When the Arctic recovers — which it will — what will they have left to get excited about?
What are the chances that two sensors half a world apart have gone “spurious” at the same time?
ossqss says:
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02135_seaice_index/
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/
Baseline Period Change
What has changed and what has not changed?
The base period used for the Sea Ice Index from 2002 through June 2013 has been 1979 to 2000 (inclusive), a 22-year period. From July 2013 forward, Sea Ice Index products will use a 30-year base period of 1981 to 2010 (inclusive). Data prior to July 2013 have been reprocessed to this new base period.
Monthly and daily ice extent and area data values have not changed, but data and image products that are based on the mean or median have changed. For example, the trend plots may have a different scale, and the value of the slope, expressed as change in percent per decade, has changed, because this value is relative to the mean period.
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Occording to that, it should not affect ice area and extent.
PIOMAS is a model ( that does not work ) , so the data glitch is irrelevant.
What was your post supposed to indicate?
I agree DB, I was more interested in the process used and altered over time to calculating things. Algorithm changes etc., and last year the change in using a 30 year base period vs the prior 22 year and such. The cumulative impact on output has to have changed quite a bit under the sheets.
One wonders how much the algorithms have been altered by the algorerhythms 🙂
‘This Arctic graph from DMI has what appears to be a spurious element also, note the recent uptick:’
The long term mean also has an uptick about now which, as it survives the smoothing, would seem to indicate that it is a semi-regular occurrence. Perhaps related to geographic features of the basin?
JAXA doesn’t show this “bump”, but shows continuing melt albeit slowing; http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot_v2.csv
What it does show is that there is now 77,360 km2 more ice than the same day last year
274,217 km2 more ice than the same day in 2012
494,428 km2 more ice than the same day in 2011
etc.
see table below
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
77360 274217 494428 -231919 -535941 -682514 142110 -380430 -650029 -1342394 -1194524
of course daily values can change rapidly and switch sign in a matter of days; for example, >5 days ago 2014 sea ice extent was less than 2013 and 2007.
Greg, my question is directed to anyone who can identify and quantify the development and evolution of sea ice measurement processes and changes over time. My post was simply sharing what I could find while at lunch.
I am certain there are eyes gazing at this who are much more qualified to answer such questions and have the citations to verify the information requested.
Sometimes I wonder if these things are not done just for fun, to see how much we ‘skeptics’ jump…. ;p
It was likely that before the “problem” with the sensors, global sea ice would have broken the all time high record. This would be devastating to the alarmist position. I think the sea ice as been “disappeared” and is swimming with the fishes never to be seen again.
In other news: With their up to date sea ice maps clutched in their hands, the Blue Planet Odyssey dinghy’s have bravely set out to conquer the northwest passage. What could possibly go wrong?
brians356 says:
July 21, 2014 at 9:54 am (Edit)
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I think that it is the same satellite Brian, sort of orbiting the globe.
One other thing on that sea ice data. To validate your data. Compare with reality whenever possible. Anyone with the internet can do this in the next minute. Step one. Go to cryosphere today and check arctic ice extents paying close attention to sea ice levels near Barrow Alaska. Step 2. Based on what you saw at Cryosphere today, what would you expect to see if you were standing in Barrow right now? Go to the Barrow Sea Ice cam. Is what you see the same as you expected? Me neither.
A picture is worth a thousand models.
Take a look at the actual conditions at the poles in relation to sea ice extent and please tell me why I should be concerned.
Visual Arctic comparison from July17, 2007 to July 17, 2014 is a muse.
footnote: see http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/ for all the info.
Kudos to Anthony Watts for presenting an insightful 10000 foot view!!!
At The Peak Of The Melt Season, The Arctic Goes Silent
Posted on July 21, 2014 by stevengoddard
There has been almost no change in Arctic sea ice over the past three days. Green shows ice gain since July 17. Red shows ice loss.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/at-the-peak-of-the-melt-season-the-arctic-goes-silent/
Keitho,
>> I think that it is the same satellite Brian, sort of orbiting the globe.
Fair enough. If it is the very same satellite monitoring both poles, how likely that one pole’s dataset has a spurious uptick while the other has a spurious down-tick?
Beats me Brian. I don’t have much confidence in much of this satellite stuff at the moment to be honest. A lot of it looks like overreach in terms of capabilities, ice extent, temperature, sea level. Now we have a new satellite looking at CO2.
We seem to have so much confidence in our new technologies and yet interpretation can be so varied depending on some algorithm or other. Hell we are busy reinterpreting old weather data with new algorithms that show whatever it is we want it to show.
I am just in curmudgeon mode I suppose. The fact is that so much is made out of the tiniest variations in natural events and it is all our fault. In the meantime the climate I live in seems pretty much like it always has despite changes in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice as measured by satellites since 1979.
Hey, they told me the science is settled. There is nothing left but imagination, and projections. The ice in my coke glass seems to be melting at an unprecedented rate this morning… I wonder is it still summer ?
Given a so-named ‘polar vortex’ has recently swept across the eastern US I wonder if the uptick represents a refreeze in Hudson Bay and other bodies of water as that cold air mass slid down through Canada.
Latitude says:
“.. no change” ; )
LOL, You and I both know its always changing. Please define “almost” 😛
Funny thought came to mind as I was reading the News Buzz this morning. Imagine climate scientists as Ear Mites. Isn’t it logical they perceive noise in Their environment?
Anyone have or know a good charting program. I have asked Bruce at sunshinehours to cart a few things but never did.
I am still doing ART CHARTS
John says:
July 21, 2014 at 10:54 am
Latitude says:
“.. no change” ; )
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John…..that’s just a copy and paste from Steve’s blog
..follow the link and you’ll see
njsnowfan says:
“good charting program”
What is the point of charting crap data related to a poor understanding of its meaning to a “program/code” that has yet to leverage knowledge in results????
“dp says:
July 21, 2014 at 10:49 am
Given a so-named ‘polar vortex’ has recently swept across the eastern US I wonder if the uptick represents a refreeze in Hudson Bay and other bodies of water as that cold air mass slid down through Canada.”
No, the colder polar that came south in the polar vortex like weather event warmed up the Arctic circle some just like last winter did.
The reason for the UP-Tick is most of the First year Thinner ice that did not compact is almost all melted leaving only thicker slower to melt icev(was a warmer then normal winter like in 1976 and first year ice was thinner then in 2013). Anomalies for N hem sea ice will continue to rise from now till the minimum is reached is my feeling unless there is a huge weather pattern change, temps in the Arctic spike or large cyclone forms.
Latitude says:
“…Steve’s Says”
A “Mosh” pit isn’t smart unless you like to knock heads over simple realities.
“John says:
July 21, 2014 at 11:22 am
What is the point of charting crap data related to a poor understanding of its meaning to a “program/code” that has yet to leverage knowledge in results????”
There is still good data to make charts, not all the data has been corrupted by the Climate change funding virus’s yet.
The Arctic sea ice is exhibiting very unusual circulation patterns this year which should lead to a substantial increase in the retention of multi-year thicker ice.
The Beaufort Gyre has become dominant over almost all the Arctic ocean basin and there is almost no ice export out of the Fram Strait (it has been flowing/moving backwards into the basin for a few months now).
This pattern has lead some to forecast that melt rates would fall substantially once the peripheral areas melted out.
Indeed, this is now occurring and the melt rates over the last 7 days have been the 3rd lowest in my database going back to 1972. Daily melt rates are approaching 50% of average. Hold onto your hats.
http://s12.postimg.org/5i9irs0pp/Arctic_SEI_Melt_Daily_Avg_Jul20_2014.png
njsnowfan says:
July 21, 2014 at 11:32 am
Sadly all the data is crap. In one way or the other it was poorly gathered and poorly defined. Thus, zero reason to chart the adolescent mess.
Bill Illis says:
July 21, 2014 at 11:34 am
says, “Hold onto your hats.”
I completely agree and we had one famous character, earlier this year, predict this event.
Looks like Weathermen are far smarter than Climate Ear Mites.
MikeP, I’m with you, in that I regard ‘data’ as plural, so must be followed by ‘are’, not ‘is’. I pulled Leif up on it once, but got shot down. I argued the point, but got bored. ‘Data’ is the plural of ‘datum’. Leif is often right about stuff, but he was wrong this time. And if anyone wants to argue it all over again, forget it, I’m going for a cup of tea.
Ice falls, when the polar vortex is weakening.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/z200anim.gif
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says:
July 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Though you’re correct, We’re not in “old” Rome.
data |ˈdatə, ˈdātə|
noun [ treated as sing. or pl. ]
Hmm, an “adjustment in a processing algorithm that changed in 2007 from Version 1 to Version 2”, huh? I’ve posted about this before — up to 2007 the ice extent charts showed a bump on the 1st July where they turned the satellite polarizer filter from “Antarctic mode” to “Arctic mode” — the problem is whether to interpret open water amidst ice as being surface water (and thus still ice-covered) or true open water. Meier’s “version 2” was their 2007 decision to twiddle the dial gradually to make the July bump disappear. This new hands-on approach rapidly degenerated to where they would turn the polarizer any way they wanted to get the desired ice extents — the one downside was that changes in the Arctic ice extent were counterbalanced by opposite changes in the Antarctic ice extent — the charts since 2008 clearly show the simultaneous opposite tweaks in the two, and this has also contributed to the increased volatility in ice extent since then. Now Meier is proposing a fix? Actually, it’s already happened — the recent fall in the Antarctic ice extent is that fix being applied, and the fix is simply that open water will henceforth be treated as true open water in both hemispheres, all the time. No more surface melt ponds allowed!
This means that today’s ice extents are no long comparable to earlier records. It will also cause a new data artifact — at the ice extent minimum, the surface melt ponds freeze over which will now be seen as a sudden jump in true ice extent, so this year’s Arctic sea ice minimum will end early, with a sudden jump in ice extent. This is what happens when you put monkeys in charge of the controls, so watch that space!
Note that my interpretation, presented here, is not from any insider knowledge about satellite operations, but just inference from years of watching the data. Heavy thumbs on the scale leave big impressions on sensitive data.
NZ Willy says:
July 21, 2014 at 12:34 pm
“This is what happens when you put monkeys in charge of the controls, so watch that space!”
ROF, two thumbs up — well said!!!
dbstealey says:
July 21, 2014 at 9:53 am
ossqss,
I have to laugh at the ridculous PIOMAS propaganda in your link above. Their Arctic chart makes it look like ice cover will hit zero any minute now.
Only if you don’t know how to read a graph. With a minimum volume in September of about 5 km^3 and a trend of -3.3 km^3/decade their data indicates about 15 years to hit zero, hardly ‘any minute now’.
But they never post a graph of the Antarctic.
Why would you expect the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System to do so?
@ Bill Illis The Arctic sea ice is exhibiting very unusual circulation patterns this year which should lead to a substantial increase in the retention of multi-year thicker ice.
Agreed. The Arctic Ocean has had above average ice. As the summer progresses, the peripheral seas approach their minimums, and the overall Arctic sea ice area of becomes increasingly dominated by that basin’s statistics. If Arctic Basin trends continue, at the Arctic’s minimum sea ice area, there should be more ice in 2014 than there was in 2013.
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says:
July 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm
MikeP, I’m with you, in that I regard ‘data’ as plural, so must be followed by ‘are’, not ‘is’. I pulled Leif up on it once, but got shot down. I argued the point, but got bored. ‘Data’ is the plural of ‘datum’.
And ‘agenda’ is the plural of ‘agendum’.
Phil. says:
…their data indicates about 15 years to hit zero, hardly ‘any minute now’.
“Any minute” was hyperbole and sarcasm. But if you want to make a wager that in 15 years the ice will be gone, I’ll fade you. Long Bets is a good place for that. $1,000.00? ☺
Phil. asks:
Why would you expect the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System to…
…show the Antarctic?
Simples: to avoid cherry-picking, and for a complete picture of global ice.
Fowler, in Modern English Usage, states, “Latin plurals sometimes become singular English words (e.g., agenda, stamina) …” As long as it’s OK to employ those words as singulars, it’s OK to do the same for “data.”
Not only is it acceptable to use “data” as a collective singular, using data as a plural word is incorrect because it throws the speaker (including those who use “data are”) into inconsistency with his habitual method of speaking, as Phillip W. pointed out [in an earlier thread]. He wrote: “‘Data’ is naturally and consistently used as a mass noun in conversation: the question is asked how much data an instrument produces, not how many; it is asked how data is archived, not how they are archived; there is talk of less data rather than fewer; and talk of data having units, saying they have a megabyte of data, …” For another example of this usage, look at the post just above this one [in an earlier thread], where the phrase “the raw data is gone” is used.
Because of this inconsistency with long-established and near-universal usage, and because, as Fowler shows, there is no real rule forbidding “data is,” “data are” will never be accepted–it will always sound odd or even affected [except in scientific journals, where it’s become a fossilized convention].
Gee, I don’t see the global insurance rate for the Northwest Passage marine transport going down. In fact it does not exist.
over a short period of years, reversion to the [mean] should be expected.
errata: reversion to the mean
“Tomorrow there will be a new paper released by former NSIDC scientist Walt Meier and others that tries to argue that some of the record sea ice extents from Antarctica recently are a victim of an adjustment in a processing algorithm that changed in 2007 from Version 1 to Version 2.”
Yeah right…
John says:
July 21, 2014 at 12:30 pm
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says:
July 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Though you’re correct, We’re not in “old” Rome.
data |ˈdatə, ˈdātə|
noun [ treated as sing. or pl. ]
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No sir, we ARE the gladiators rebelling against Rome. To date, Spartacus still stands.
Borrow Sea Ice Webcam shows sea ice on July 21, 2014./
Here is the link: http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam
There is a fantastic new tool for observing the sea ice. “Worldview” which packages the Modis satellite pictures in a much more useable manner.
On the top right of this link, one can switch to North Pole view and then zoom-in closer and closer with the mouse wheel. At the bottom, one can pick different dates, a day at a time for example. I click backwards from the current date (looking for cloud-free pictures) and then once the picture is cached by your browser, you just move back and forth between the dates and watch how the ice moves from day to day, 2013 vs 2014 etc in animation-type mode. There are also options to download pics from any area on whatever days on wants as well as create quick-links to the view you have zoomed-into for others.
Click the “take a tour” to “don’t show again” so it doesn’t come up each time you visit. Required bookmarking for any sea ice follower.
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/
In addition, you don’t have to go to the polar view and can zoom-in anywhere on Earth you want with this new highly useable website.
Arctic sea ice extents is right at a -2 std deviations below its declared average for this date. Antarctic sea ice extents right at the +2 std deviations for today’s date. BUT! Antarctic sea ice is gaining now – rising towards its yearly maxim,um between mid-September and early October. So a 2 std deviation area from an average of 13.0 Mkm^2 at latitude 62 – 61 south is MUCH more important than a -2 std deviation at latitude 78-79 up in the Arctic from a Arctic area of 3 – 4 Mkm^2 at ALL dates of the year between mid-August through early April.
Thus, in calculating reflected solar energy, for 7 months of the year, Antarctic sea ice – which for 5 years has been increasing steadily – dominates the solar energy balance. For only a short 5 months of the year does the Arctic get more energy than the Antarctic.
In fact, when the Antarctic is at its maximum in mid-September, and the Arctic sea ice at its minimum, the edge of the Antarctic sea is getting FIVE TIMES the solar energy than the edge of the Arctic sea ice. Increase the Antarctic sea ice by 1.0 million sq km’s in September? You would have to delete ALL of the Arctic sea ice to get the same apparent solar energy. But that cannot happen: There isn’t 5.0 Mkm^2 of Arctic sea ice to melt!
But that’s NOT the message that Meiers wants released to his obedient minions in the well-paid highly-funded official government propaganda machine.
At today’s rate of increase for Antarctic sea ice since 2005, the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn (latitude 56 south) will be closed to ocean traffic within 8 – 12 years.
For example, I saved this pic for posterity from a few days ago of the Petermann glacier on the northwest of Greenland. The glacier has moved about 5 kms (as glaciers do) from the grey line where it last calved an iceberg in 2012. It will calve again in a few to several years to a decade.
http://s16.postimg.org/i5j9glgvp/Petermann_July14_14.jpg
But, show me your calculations to disprove the following:
From today’s Arctic sea ice extents, for all days after late August, the open Arctic water up past 78 – 79 north LOSES more heat energy when it is “open” (with no ice coverage) due to increased evaporation, increased convection, increased conduction and increased long-wave radiation than it gains from the few hours a day of low angle sun that is mostly reflecting off of the water at solar elevation angles of 4 – 6 – 12 degrees . From today’s limits of 3.5 million sq kilometers (2007, 2012) to 4.0 Mkm^2, ice-covered waters after late August act only as a blanket to retard heat loss to space.
Mid-summer? Different story. The sun is up higher in the sky.
But after mid-August? More Arctic sea ice loss = more heat loss from the ocean into space.
But the Antarctic sea ice is almost ALL “new” clean ice. It doesn’t get the very low albedo typically measured by Curry during the mid-summer up north. And that “clean” highly reflective Antarctic sea ice is growing up at latitude 61 – 60 – and 59 south. Down south, more sea ice = MORE solar energy reflected back into space at ALL dates of the year! .
Sea ice is nice. I like it. The only problem is that it will soon be all ice free! We must act against sea ice reducing car fumes. You have been warned.
All the quotes from my last comment are from Professor Peter ‘ice free Arctic’ Wadhams in 2016.
I wonder why a press report from NOAA regarding the average temp the past 352 months was removed . It was directly from the Canadian Press and in the context of all the the varied reports on Sea Ice from all the different agencies it might fit in because it is so opposite of what has been said about the cooling cycle we are going through I just thought there was a parallel.
Expect some acceleration in the Arctic melt, warm atmospheric circulation from the Bay of Biscay, all the way to the central Arctic
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=0.00,54.00,671
Where was that announcement removed from? What site or what board?
Racook this thread around 9.30 am July 21 copied and pasted from the Canadian Press. Re the NOAA announcement that for the last 352 months the average temp worlds wide has been increasing. I will try to get again but it’s bed time I will try tomorrow July23
This is very important to note: instrumental errors or mathematical errors only occur in readings, calculations, or instruments that refute global warming. All readings, calculations, and instruments that support global warming are accurate. Always.