Monthly Archives: March 2009

>KNMI Added ERSST.v3b Data To Climate Explorer

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>On Sunday, March 29, 2009, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute added ERSST.v3b data to Climate Explorer. Many thanks to Dr Van Oldenborgh for his quick response to my email request. The ERSST.v3b version of NCDC’s … Continue reading →

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>Part 2 of The Large SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>And A Look At Two More COADS Datasets – SST & Wind Speed INTRODUCTION In The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data, I illustrated that the 1945/46 shift SST anomalies also appears … Continue reading →

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>The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>And A Curious Long-Term Dataset UPDATE – March 24, 2009 I have acquired and read the Thompson et al (2008) paper “A large discontinuity in the mid-twentieth century in observed global-mean surface temperature”, and the follow-up articles “Hot Questions of … Continue reading →

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>The Latest Revisions to Ocean Heat Content Data

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>The November 5, 2008, NASA Earth Observatory article “Correcting Ocean Cooling”… http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCooling/…contained the graph of the newly revised Ocean Heat Content on page 4 of the article. It compares the original OHC data to the newly revised data. Figure 1 … Continue reading →

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>Oceanic Volcanism and Sea Surface Temperature

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>Many times when Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies are discussed on blogs, someone mentions ocean volcanoes, stating their belief that the subsurface volcanism causes large areas of positive SST anomalies. When an oceanic volcano becomes active or erupts, bloggers find … Continue reading →

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>March 2009 Mid-Month ENSO Update

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>During the week centered on Wednesday March 11, 2009, NINO3.4 SST anomalies have risen above the threshold for a La Nina to -0.41 deg C. http://s5.tinypic.com/24gkhg8.jpg NINO3.4 SST Anomalies On the other hand, NINO3 SST anomalies have dropped to -0.84 … Continue reading →

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>Has Global Warming Accelerated?

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>CORRECTION: In agreement with my post The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation – Correcting My Mistake, I edited the sentence in this post that read, “North Atlantic SST anomalies vary in a semi-periodic cycle that is normally expressed as a residual, the … Continue reading →

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>Low Frequency ENSO Oscillations

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>INITIAL NOTE: In this post, I did not filter the data. The smoothing of the NINO3 and SOI data with a 30-year Gaussian-weighted filter was performed by Jones et al. I simply inverted the Jones et al data in Figures … Continue reading →

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>The Barents Sea Hotspot Isn’t So Hot

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>Blogger Richard 1 1 1 commented about the Barents Sea hotspot in the February 2009 NOAA/NESDIS SST anomaly map posted as part of the La Niña conditions: still there thread at WattsUpWithThat, Figure 1. http://s5.tinypic.com/2hdqydx.jpg Figure 1 As a second … Continue reading →

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>IPCC 20th Century Simulations Get a Boost from Outdated Solar Forcings

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>Or The Sun Also Can’t Explain the Warming in the Early Part of the 20th Century INTRODUCTION In two previous posts, AGW Proponents Are Two-Faced When It Comes To Solar Irradiance As A Climate Forcing and Climate Modelers Reproduce Early … Continue reading →

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