Monthly Archives: May 2009

>ICOADS Monthly Tropical and Extratropical SST Samplings from 1800 to 2008

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Animations of Ocean Heat Content, Depth-Averaged Temperature, And Sea Surface Height

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Revisiting “Misunderstandings About The PDO – Revised”

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 … Continue reading →

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>Mid-May 2009 ENSO and AMO Update

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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.jpg Mid-May NINO3.4 SST Anomalies AMO I’ll use the North Atlantic … Continue reading →

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>Update of Recent Differences Between GISS and NCDC SST Anomaly Data And A Look At The Multiple NCDC SST Datasets

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Recent Differences Between GISS and NCDC SST Anomaly Data And A Look At The Multiple NCDC SST Datasets

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Levitus et al (2009) Ocean Heat Content – Comparison of The Ocean Basin Data

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

> 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 →

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>Comparison of Annual ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST (Not Anomaly) Data

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Supplement 1 to Comparison of Annual ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST (Not Anomaly) Data

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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>Supplement 2 to Comparison of Annual ERSST.v3b and HADISST NINO3.4 SST (Not Anomaly) Data

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>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 →

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