Monthly Archives: March 2010

>GISS Acknowledges Addition of ERSST.v3b Data To Their GISTEMP “Options”

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

>I had noted the addition of ERSST.v3b SST dataset to the GISTEMP map-making webpage back in the February 25, 2010 post WHEN DID GISS ADD ERSST.v3b DATA TO THEIR MAP-MAKING WEB PAGE? This month, GISS posted a link to the … Continue reading →

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>Which Has The Greater Impact On Global SST Anomalies, The Rise In The SST Anomalies Of The Arctic Ocean Or The Decrease In The Southern Ocean?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

>This post illustrates an observation I’ve made a number of times while investigating other subjects, so I thought I’d post it. It shows the relative strengths of the polar SST anomalies. Using the NCDC’s Optimum Interpolation (OI.v2) SST Anomaly dataset, … Continue reading →

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>PRELIMINARY March 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Posted on March 29, 2010 by

>The official March 2010 SST data through the NOAA NOMADS website won’t be official until Monday April 5th. Refer to the schedule on the NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis Frequently Asked Questions webpage. The following are the preliminary … Continue reading →

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>The Inverted ENSO Signal In The SST Residuals Of The East Indian And West Pacific Ocean

Posted on March 28, 2010 by

>OVERVIEW This post illustrates an inverted ENSO signals contained within the Global SST anomaly dataset, using SST anomaly residuals for the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans. SST anomaly residuals in this post are defined as the SST anomalies for … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, SST Dataset Info | 4 Comments

>Absolute Land Surface Temperature Dataset

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

>On the GISSTemp +0.71C: Slightly higher than January. thread at Lucia’s The Blackboard, I replied to a comment with, “There’s simply no gridded absolute land surface temperature data that I’ve found.” I received an email a few days later, advising … Continue reading →

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>Mid-March 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

>NINO3.4 and Global SST anomalies are still stalled at the levels they’ve been at for the last six weeks. NINO3.4 SST anomalies for the week centered on March 17, 2010 show that central equatorial Pacific SST anomalies have remained relatively … Continue reading →

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>Is There A 60-Year Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cycle?

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

>INTRODUCTION Climate bloggers often refer to a 60-year cycle in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). I assume they derive the 60-year period from the graph of the PDO, Figure 1, from the JISAO “Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)” web page. As … Continue reading →

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>Absolute RSS MSU TLT Data

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

>If you haven’t noticed, KNMI has added RSS MSU TLT data to their Climate Explorer: http://climexp.knmi.nl/selectfield_obs.cgi?someone@somewhere In absolute form, the Global TLT data of course includes seasonal variations, as shown in Figure 1. http://i40.tinypic.com/141qvra.png Figure 1 And for those who … Continue reading →

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>February 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

>MONTHLY SST ANOMALY MAP The map of Global OI.v2 SST anomalies for February 2010 downloaded from the NOMADS website is shown below. http://i49.tinypic.com/23m4e1g.png February 2010 SST Anomalies Map (Global SST Anomaly = +0.285 deg C) MONTHLY OVERVIEW Global SST anomalies … Continue reading →

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>PRELIMINARY February 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

>Sorry for the delay. These preliminary monthly SST anomaly updates usually come out on Mondays. But the NOMADS3 server has been down, and I waited until today to contact NOAA. They were kind enough to direct me to another server. … Continue reading →

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