By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page. For those unfamiliar, a Polar Vortex is “caused when an…
Category: Sea ice
Model predicts Arctic sea ice extent
From the University of Washington , some great news if it holds predictive power over time in the face of a cyclic, noisy, non-linear system. Model provides successful seasonal forecast…
Final 2011 sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
While I’ve sent this to Helen Wiggins at ARCUS (and have confirmation of receipt), I’m also posting it here for the record. PAN-ARCTIC OUTLOOK FROM WUWT (acronym for WattsUpWithThat.com)
Final Arctic Sea Ice forecast poll
Poll now closed. Results below will be submitted to ARCUS on Sept 1st. Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based…
Icebreaker at the North Pole
From the Alfred Wegener Institute news that a ship that reached the real geographic North Pole, unlike the hapless group of Whisky sponsored rowers (Row to the Pole) who are…
Still no polar ice tipping points ahead
We covered this earlier, but this is a new press release on the subject today. From the University of Washington via Eurekalert Model shows polar ice caps can recover from…
ARCUS Sea Ice August forecast online
The August SEARCH forecast is now online, a little late this month. As before, I’ll make the poll for WUWT readers available at the end of the month for the…
From NCAR an "unexpected new result" – "Arctic ice… likely to expand as it is to contract"
It seems that the Serreze “death spiral” might be on hold. From UCAR/NCAR: Arctic ice melt could pause in near future, then resume again BOULDER—Although Arctic sea ice appears fated…
Quote of the week – death of the Arctic "death spiral"?
We all cringed, then laughed when Dr. Mark Serreze of NSIDC first said it, then marveled about it as it got a life of its own, being the buzzphrase for…
Arctic "death spiral" or dead sensor?
As many readers have noted, one of the Arctic sea ice extent plots on our WUWT sea ice page took a Serreze style nosedive today: Source: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/icecover_current.png According to DMI…
The "Row to the Pole" publicity stunt looks doomed to failure by a sea ice block
Regular readers may recall that back on June 15th, I pointed out the absurdity of this “Row to the Pole” publicity stunt sponsored by the whisky company “Old Pulteney” which…
Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates
Guest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t. While there is great hand wringing…
August ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum extent be?
Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’ll run this poll each…
Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – "worse than we thought"
Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet…
Polar OBuoy – the movie
An engineer who helped deploy “obuoys” in the Arctic submitted this story, but wishes to remain nameless since he feels that he’ll be ostracized for sharing here. I’ll respect his…
Earth's Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except…
PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model Corrected – Still Appears Suspect
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” It seems that the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model that generated the highly suspect chart above…
July ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum extent be?
Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’ll run this poll each…
Cryosat produces its first Arctic ice thickness map
From the European Space Agency (ESA): New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed today at the Paris…
Icebergs, phytoplankton, and CO2 – negative feedback
Via Lewis Page at the Register: Some cheerful news on the climate change front today, as US government boffins report that ice breaking off the Antarctic shelves and melting in…
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