From Dr. Roy W. Spencer’s Blog March 7th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. SUMMARY: Evidence is presented that an over-correction of satellite altimeter data for increasing water vapor…
Tag: Aqua
Inverse hockey stick in the lower troposphere – real or not?
Bishop Hill via correspondent Gras Albert noted this event early today: I looked through the entire satellite record, and couldn’t find any similar event. That meant it was either unique,…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 6 – Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012 is online
First some news on the status of the WUWT Sea Ice Page. The JAXA imagery, which has been DOA ever since the failure of the AMSRE instrument on the AQUA…
Christy and Spencer: Our Response to Recent Criticism of the UAH Satellite Temperatures
by John R. Christy and Roy W. Spencer University of Alabama in Huntsville A new paper by Stephen Po-Chedley and Quang Fu (2012) (hereafter PCF) was sent to us at…
UAH global Temperature for December – no change
UAH Global Temperature Update for Dec. 2011: +0.13 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for December, 2011 remained about the same November, +0.13…
NASA checking TERRA/AQUA satellite observations against citizen observer ground reports
S.D. Maley writes of an interesting and somewhat surprising NASA program trying to fill in observation gaps where satellites are getting cloud cover wrong: NASA is in the process [1]…
UAH global temperature – holding steady in November
UAH Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2011: +0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for November, 2011 remained about the same as last…
Why the UAH global temperature is late
November Global Temperature Update Delayed By Dr. Roy Spencer There has been a delay in our monthly processing of global temperature data from AMSU. An undersea telecommunications cable used to…
In space, there are no Jiffy Lubes
Dr. Roy Spencer reports that AMSR-E shut down today, too much torque on the rotating element, and all it needs to keep going is a lube job. AMSR-E Ends 9+…
UAH monthly global temperature, down again slightly, daily data closing in on record cold territory
UAH Global Temperature Update for September 2011: +0.29 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for September, 2011 retreated a little again, to +0.29…
Satellite Composite Shows Chilean Volcano Plume Spreading Globally
Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it…
Global Sea Surface Temperature continues to drop
SST UPDATE FROM AMSR-E By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD The following plot shows global average sea surface temperatures from the AMSR-E instrument over the lifetime of the Aqua satellite, through…
Greenland blows hot and cold while Europe freezes
There’s a colorfully sharp temperature contrast in Greenland, one might think it was “red hot” there. Hmmm where have we seen something like this before? The warm red pocket over…
