Monthly Archives: May 2009

>I regularly mention in ENSO posts that there was little SST sampling in the eastern equatorial Pacific prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, that the reader needs to keep that in mind when viewing early NINO3.4 … Continue reading →

>OPENING NOTE I created two animations and discovered a third while I was trying to find a way to illustrate a specific process. I haven’t been successful in showing that process, but I’ve elected to post the videos for those … Continue reading →

>My post “Misunderstandings about the PDO – REVISED” also ran at WattsUpWithThat (WUWT) and received a number of comments, some agreeing, others disagreeing. A link to the WUWT version:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/28/misunderstandings-about-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation/ In that post, I illustrated how the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) … Continue reading →

>NINO3.4 SST ANOMALIES NINO3.4 SST anomalies have continued their rise. They are still within ENSO neutral temperatures and have reached (approximately) the levels they had climbed to last July/August. http://i40.tinypic.com/2wh4enb.jpgMid-May NINO3.4 SST Anomalies AMO I’ll use the North Atlantic SST … Continue reading →

>THE AVAILABILITY OF ERSST.v2 DATA In a post at Climate Audit “Bob Tisdale on SST”, Steve McIntyre noted that NOAA has stated, regarding their ERSST data, that “V3b is now the official version. V2 will no longer be updated. It … Continue reading →

>OR There are Increases in Trend with Each Update While The Causes of Downward Biases Are Deleted In the recent WUWT post Something hinky this way comes: NCDC data starts diverging from GISS, the differences between GISS and NCDC global … Continue reading →

> INTRODUCTION In my post The Latest Revisions to Ocean Heat Content Data, I provided comparisons of the recent Levitus et al (2009) Ocean Heat Content (OHC) data to other recently released reconstructions. This post compares ocean basin data from … Continue reading →

>INITIAL NOTE This post illustrates differences between ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST data. I am in no way attempting to indicate if one or the other is correct. INTRODUCTION In the December 18, 2008 post NINO3.4 Data Comparison–HADSST and ERSST.v3, … Continue reading →

>HADISST DATA This post provides stand-alone illustrations of the HADISST NINO3.4 SST data used in the post Comparison of Annual ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST (Not Anomaly) Data , without the distraction of the other dataset in the comparison charts. … Continue reading →

>ERSST.v3b DATA This post provides stand-alone illustrations of the ERSST.v3b NINO3.4 SST data used in the post Comparison of Annual ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST (Not Anomaly) Data , without the distraction of the other dataset in the comparison charts. … Continue reading →