Monthly Archives: November 2008

>Note: This is my first attempt at uploading or linking a video I created, so things might get interesting. INTRODUCTION In prior posts, I’ve noted that the heat upwelled during El Nino events isn’t all released into the atmosphere, that … Continue reading →

>INTRODUCTION More than two decades ago, the hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) seemed logical to me. I bit into it hook, line, and sinker. (See following note) Until recent times, most articles and papers presented both sides of the … Continue reading →

>HAPPY THANKSGIVINGAnd to those of you who are not celebrating the holiday, Happy Thursday. With the 2008 Hurricane Season coming to a close, it seemed appropriate to resurrect the paleoclimatological reconstruction of the estimated number of major Atlantic hurricanes created … Continue reading →

>On the recent RealClimate thread Mind the Gap!, Rasmus discussed the confusion over global temperature trends. Maybe if he had checked his graphics before he posted them, he might have helped his cause. The mistake: The second graphic on the … Continue reading →

>INTRODUCTION While I was investigating North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, an area of the North Atlantic kept coming up in papers: the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. Refer to Figure 1. The red box (the borders for the data used in … Continue reading →

>UPDATE I believe this is the paper that describes the data set:http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/18/17/39/PDF/GRL_MOC_submit3.pdf INTRODUCTION In their Climate Indices webpage, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has an interesting historical data set available for downloading: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). KNMI website:http://www.knmi.nl/about_knmi/Climate … Continue reading →

>INTRODUCTION In a previous post “Standardized versus Raw (Not Standardized) NINO3.4 SST Anomaly Data” (11/13/08), which I have removed, I mistakenly attributed the differences between the two data sets to standardization. The standardized NINO3.4 SST anomaly data that I used … Continue reading →

>UPDATE (2-19-09): And yet another website attributing this comment to me. MacCompanion:http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/November2008/Greenware/GlobalCooling.htm************ Being misquoted is one thing, having a thoughtful comment by another blogger attributed to me is another. I discovered on a number of blogs that I was said … Continue reading →

> INTRODUCTION The reasons for the drastic decline in Arctic Sea ice during 2007 include the reversal of Arctic Ocean currents, polar amplification exacerbated by of a string of El Nino events (2002/03, 2004/05, 2006/07) with no La Ninas to … Continue reading →

>INTRODUCTION I would prefer to use ERSST.v3 in all posts since it’s the most up-to-date version of SST data, but I have yet to find a simple way to download time-series data for it. For short-term data, however, monthly Optimally … Continue reading →