Monthly Archives: July 2010

Note (August 22, 2011): Sorry, I fell way behind with the maintenance of this page. It should be up to date now. The following are links to the Monthly SST Anomaly Updates, the Preliminary Monthly SST Anomaly Updates, and the … Continue reading →

>INTRODUCTIONFrank Lansner’s post Did GISS discover 30% more land in the Northern Hemisphere? at Jo Nova’s blog created a recent stir. Watts Up With That ran a similar post by Frank, Tipping point at GISS? Land and sea weight out … Continue reading →

>Over the past few days there has been some blogosphere buzz about the apparent ratio of Land Surface Temperature (LST) Data used in the GISTEMP combined land and sea surface temperature data with 1200km smoothing. I’ll provide a few comparison … Continue reading →

>Reynolds (OI.v2) SST anomaly data shows all four NINO regions well into La Niña territories. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mlb/enso/nino-regions.gifMap of NINO Regions###################### http://i26.tinypic.com/20k9elt.jpgNINO3.4###################### http://i29.tinypic.com/29o0v21.jpgNINO4###################### http://i25.tinypic.com/2hsakut.jpgNINO3###################### http://i28.tinypic.com/ebbudz.jpgNINO1+2###################### SOURCEThe Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature Data (OISST) are available through the NOAA National Operational Model Archive … Continue reading →

>MONTHLY SST ANOMALY MAP The map of Global OI.v2 SST anomalies for June 2010 downloaded from the NOMADS website is shown below. The central equatorial Pacific SST anomalies have decreased to the threshold of a La Niña. http://i47.tinypic.com/280s0p3.jpgJune 2010 SST … Continue reading →

>I was asked by one of the independent researchers who are reconstructing global temperature data for an overview of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) datasets. I’ve limited the discussion to those SST datasets used in the Hadley Centre, GISS, and NCDC … Continue reading →