From a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News Release : Team finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers,…
Category: Oceans
More on Ocean Heat Content and recent revisions to the data
OHC Linear Trends and Recent Update of NODC OHC (0-700 Meters) Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale [This is a follow up post to the first one on WUWT where…
Record cold in Florida kills reef coral
Never mind predictions of catastrophic bleaching from global warming, cold is the culprit of this story. With ocean heat content now shown to be dropping slightly since 2005, there is…
NODC revises ocean heat content data – it's now dropping slightly
NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) – 2007, 2008 & 2009 Corrections Guest post by Bob Tisdale The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently updated its 4th quarter and annual…
Tiny bubbles…in the brine…affects the climate…all the time
URI bubble physicist counts bubbles in the ocean to answer questions about climate, sound, light From a University of Rhode Island press release NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – January 21, 2010 –…
Sensor problems with ship based CO2 flux measurements – readings too high, affected by humidity
From a National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) press release Measuring carbon dioxide over the ocean Reliable measurements of the air-sea flux of carbon dioxide – an important greenhouse gas –…
Not as bad as they thought: Coral can recover from climate change damage
From a University of Exeter press release, another inconvenient truth about our planet sure to be denounced by some who claim that global warming is irreparably damaging reef systems. A…
More carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought.
Much more carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought. From Nature News Published online 7 January 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1041 Matt Kaplan Echinoderms are responsible for storing a…
NOAA Paper: North American 2008 Cooling Attributed to Natural Causes
Cool sea surface temperatures overrode warming December 4, 2009 Left side: 1970-2007 trend in annual surface air temperature. Right sid: 2008 annual surface air temperature, shown as a departure from…
Oh snap! CO2 causes some ocean critters to build more shells
And some thought ocean acidification would destroy everything. “We were surprised that some organisms didn’t behave in the way we expected under elevated CO2″…“They were somehow able to manipulate CO2…to…
CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing
While this article makes a strong case, looking at SST and CO2 can also be revealing: A review of this WUWT post might also be instructive: A look at human…
Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store
From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for…
Sea sponges soak up carbon …like a sponge
From Eurekalert Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert.…
Why does Ocean Heat Content diverge from GISS projections?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale: Why Are OHC Observations (0-700m) Diverging From GISS Projections? INTRODUCTION My post “NODC Corrections to Ocean Heat Content (0-700m) Part 2” illustrated the divergence between…
Connecting ENSO, PDV, and the North and South Pacific
A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters was brought to my attention by Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Tropical origins of North and South Pacific decadal variability by Jeremy D. Shakun and…
AMSRE Global SST down – near zero – trend since 2002 also down
While we have one blog post that shows OHC disappearing due to an adjustment by KNMI, Ocean Heat Content: cooling gone today with new adjustment, global sea surface temperatures are telling…
Ocean Heat Content: cooling gone today with new adjustment
WUWT readers may recall last week that we had an excellent guest analysis by Bob Tisdale titled: Ocean Heat Content: Dropping again Easy come, easy go. The data has been changed.…
Ocean Heat Content: Dropping again
I found Bob’s Arctic Ocean Heat Content graph quite interesting as it may explain why we are seeing a recovery in sea ice for the last two years. It also…
New paper: Barents Sea Temperature correlated to the AMO as much as 4C – potential for sea ice effect
A new paper just published in the Geophysical Review Letters finds a significant correlation between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the water temperature of the Barents Sea. This was…
Man made air pollution helps iron deficient ocean
From a University of Leeds Press Release Acidic clouds nourish world’s oceans Published Friday 2nd October 09 Acidic clouds are feeding bioavailable iron to the oceans – a discovery which…
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