In my opinion, this essay is a must read because it clearly illustrates correlation between ocean cycles to; Arctic ice loss and gain, glacier advance and retreat, and land surface…
Category: Sea Surface Temperature
Igor cool ocean
As I’ve written before, hurricanes are natural heat engines. They transport surface heat to the upper atmosphere for dissipation to space. They do a splendid job of cooling the ocean…
Watch recent hurricanes cool the Atlantic
The Atlantic has been running warm lately, but that’s because there’s been little happening with Nature’s natural heat transporters. WUWT commenter SteveM pointed out something interesting in the latest SST…
The North Pacific & Solar Cycle Change
Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. Awhile back I drew attention to temporal patterns shared by the <i>rate of change</i> of solar cycle length (SCL’) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation…
Cooler times ahead: indicators show deepening La Niña
As shown by the indicators on WUWT’s new ENSO/SST page there is a deeping of the La Niña that is starting to rival 2008 in depth. While it hasn’t yet…
Tisdale rebuttal to JPL's "Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger"
On Lee and McPhaden (2010) “Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central‐equatorial Pacific” Guest post by Bob Tisdale As happens all too often, the press release for a paper…
Tisdale on comparing global climate data with SST
The Global Coverage of NCDC Merged Land + Sea Surface Temperature Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale There are a numerous blogosphere posts about the global coverage, or lack thereof,…
Global Sea Surface Temps still headed down
Still Cooling: Sea Surface Temperatures thru August 18, 2010 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the…
Tisdale on Liu and Curry's 'Accelerated Warming' paper
On Liu and Curry (2010) “Accelerated Warming of the Southern Ocean and Its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Sea Ice” Image above courtesy Dr. Judith Curry The Liu and…
Dr. Curry Warms the Southern Ocean
UPDATE: 8/18 10:30AM I spoke with Dr. Judith Curry by telephone today, and she graciously offered the link to the full paper here, and has added this graphic to help…
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity still at 30 year low
From: Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update Figure: Global and Northern Hemisphere Accumulated Cyclone Energy: 24 month running sum through July 31, 2010. Note that the year…
A color scheme change for the SST map
By Steve Goddard WUWT reader “Roy” astutely noted that the NOAA SST map shows a lot of hot yellow, in regions which are just barely above normal temperatures. So I…
Global Sea Surface Temperature Cooling Continues
Above: Sea Surface Temperature anomaly map from NOAA/NESDIS. Note the La Nina building in the Pacific. By Dr. Roy Spencer Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on…
Frozen Tropics as La Niña takes hold
By Steve Goddard As La Niña takes hold in South America, we are seeing something I’m not sure I have ever seen before. Temperatures in some parts of the Andes…
Australia's BoM declares La Niña in the Pacfic
From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) see the SOI below, now firmly in positive territory like in 2008. An animation of SST from the Navy follows. Pacific Ocean in…
Hot in Europe – Cold in South America
By Steve Goddard NCEP is forecasting temperatures far above normal for the next week in Europe. I don’t think I have ever seen the Europe map so red before. This…
Spencer: SST's headed down – fast
Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Continue their Plunge By Dr. Roy Spencer Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue their plunge as a…
GISS Deletes Arctic And Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Data
Guest post by Bob Tisdale There are numerous blog posts and discussions about how the GISS global temperature anomaly product GISTEMP differs from the Hadley Centre and NCDC datasets. The…
SST update
Steve Goddard writes: Below are animations for the entire year (150 days) so far, based on NOAA SST maps. The videos are presented with minimal commentary. As they say, “150…
Spencer: Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Poised for a Plunge
Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Poised for a Plunge by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Just an update…as the following graph shows, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) along the equatorial Pacific…
Satellite Temperatures and El Niño
By Steve Goddard RSS April 14,000 Foot Anomalies UAH and RSS satellite data have been showing record warm temperatures in 2010, despite the fact that many of us have been…
R.I.P. El Niño
By Steve Goddard El Niño made it’s last gasp this week. Note that SST’s in the equatorial Pacific went from above normal to below normal during the past few days.…
"The decrease in upper ocean heat content from March to April was 1C – largest since 1979"
Recent Variations In Upper Ocean Heat Content – Information From Phil Klotzbach By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior Phil Klotzbach has graciously permitted me to post an update on upper ocean heat content…
Hotness is in the eye of the beholder
I’ve mentioned before how chosen color schemes greatly influence how people see surface temperature data. Frank points out that sea surface temperature presentations suffer from the same problem. – Anthony…
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