From ICECAP AMO, The Key Global Climate Indicator By Matt Vooro The AMO is an ongoing series of long-duration changes in the sea surface temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean,…
Category: Oceans
Sea Surface Temperatures since 1996 – the movie
Animations of Weekly SST Anomaly Maps from January 3, 1996 to July 1, 2009 Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The following four animations of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies were…
NOAA announces the arrival of El Niño
Contact: Christopher Vaccaro FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 202-536-8911 (cellular) July 9, 2009 El Niño Arrives; Expected to Persist through Winter 2009-10 NOAA scientists today announced the arrival of El…
El Nino – same but different
There Is Nothing New About The El Nino Modoki Guest post by Bob Tisdale The press release… http://media-newswire.com/release_1094000.html …for the Hye-Mi Kim, et al (2009) paper “Impact of Shifting Patterns…
Roger Pielke Senior on Real Climate claims: "bubkes"
Real Climate’s Misinformation From Climate Science — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 7:00 am Real Climate posted a weblog on June 21 2009 titled “A warning from Copenhagen”. They report on a Synthesis…
Pielke Senior: Comment on Joe Romm's weblog on El Nino and global warming
Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Sr’s Climate Science Climate Progress has a weblog by Joesph Romm titled “Breaking: NOAA puts out “El Niño Watch,” so record temperatures are coming and this…
Arctic Sea Ice Time Lapse from 1978 to 2009 using NSIDC data
Jeff Id at the Air Vent has been doing some interesting work lately. Before the NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice anomaly plot went kaput due to failure of the satellite sensor…
A look at human CO2 emissions -vs- ocean absorption
Steve Fitzpatrick writes in with a short essay: Graphic by NASA Ocean CO2 absorption On May 11 you reposted a blog from Dr. Roy Spencer, where he suggests that much of…
Uh, oh. 50 year old ocean thermohaline model sinking fast, climate models may be disrupted
Another “observations are not models” story is emerging. For more on the status quo of thermohaline circulation, see this Wiki article – Anthony Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered From Peter…
Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills
Public release date: 13-May-2009 (from EurekAlert) Contact: Stephanie Murphy media@whoi.edu 508-289-3340 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills Study off…
La Niña fading, El Niño may soon return
Source: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.5.11.2009.gif Bill Illis writes in comments: The newest Ocean SST map shows the La Nina conditions have gone away and we are in slightly positive ENSO conditions. Also interesting…
Spencer on an alternate view of CO2 increases
This interesting essay by Dr. Spencer is reposted from his blog, link here: Global Warming Causing Carbon Dioxide Increases: A Simple Model May 11th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph.…
PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each?
PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each? Guest Post by Basil Copeland Introduction In a recent post here at WUWT, as well as on his own blog, Bob…
The Global Warming Hypothesis and Ocean Heat
Guest Post By William DiPuccio Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words express a foundational…
Misunderstandings about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Misunderstandings about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Guest post by Bob Tisdale INITIAL NOTE The first version of this post (The Common Misunderstanding About The PDO dated June 26, 2008) incorrectly…
The oceans as a calorimeter and solar amplification
For those who don’t know, a calorimeter is a device to measure heat capacity. There is an entire science called calorimetry devoted to this measurement. Scottish physician and scientist Joseph…
Sea Level Graphs from UC and some perspectives
I got a couple of emails today saying that I should take a look at the most recently posted sea level graph from the University of Colorado shown below: The…
The 1998 Super El Niño: possibly a "rogue wave"?
In comments on WUWT, people often think freely and throw out all sorts of ideas. Like in any collection of people, some are bad, some are average, a few are…
Ocean iron fertilization CO2 sequestration experiment a blooming failure
Ocean iron fertilization. Source: Woods Hole From the best laid plans of mice and men department. In the late 1980’s, the late John Martin advanced the idea that carbon uptake…
Dust study suggests only 30% of Atlantic temp increase due to warming climate
(From PhysOrg.com h/t to Leif Svalgaard) — The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30…
El Nino study challenges global warming intensity link
From Scientific American via Reuters By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Research showing an El Nino event in 1918 was far stronger than previously thought is…
Recent Ocean Heat and MLO CO2 Trends
One of the great things about running this blog is that people send me things to look at. Sometimes I see connections between two things that were initially unrelated by…
Undersea Volcanic Eruption In Tonga
Guest post by Steven Goddard The Washington Post reports today: An undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga, tossing clouds of smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters)…
Ice Ages and Sea Level
Guest post by Dr. David Archibald The Earth is currently in an interglacial period of an ice age that started about two and a half million years ago. The Earth’s…
You must be logged in to post a comment.