The 2009 “super El Nino” predicted by some may be a “fizzle” according reports attributed to NASA JPL’s Climatologist Bill Patzert. I wonder who he might be referring to when…
Category: Oceans
NOAA's August global SST record is the result of one data set
Yesterday NOAA announced with much fanfare that: The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern…
NOAA: Warmest Global Sea-Surface Temperatures for August and Summer
From the NOAA press release, just in time for Copenhagen. Of course the satellite record for August tells another story that is not quite so alarming as NCDC’s take on…
ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content Data
ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale, BTW here is the current SST map. – Anthony The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) recently added the…
California Wildfires caused by cooler Pacific, La Niña
California’s Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative…
Hovmollering the SST: T-shirt tie-dye design or climate science?
Note: Bob wrote to me with this caveat: Caution: Those Hovmollers will bring you back to the 60s if you stare at them too long. Hence the title. – Anthony…
Study: Ocean net heat flow is connected with climate shifts – CO2 not correlated – no "warming in the pipeline"
Related to this story: The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Time Series from the University of Washington, seen below. Emphasis points mine. h/t to WUWT reader Richard Heg. – Anthony Monthly Values…
Why regression analysis fails to capture the aftereffects of El Nino events
In a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research a paper, Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature, researchers Chris de Freitas, John McLean, and Bob Carter find that…
"Surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean"
Note: Above graph comes from this source and not the paper below. Only the abstract is available. (Note from 2016: The link to the graph died, the image was recovered…
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation – not quite cool yet.
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,…
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…
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