Monthly Archives: November 2009

>Preliminary November 2009 SST Anomalies (OI.v2)

>Keep in mind that the following discussion is based on preliminary monthly OI.v2 Global and NINO3.4 SST anomaly data. The weekly data, though, is official. The official monthly values will be posted by NOAA on December 6, 2009, so check … Continue reading

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>Phil Jones Missed The Point

>NOTE: I changed the title to reflect the content of the post. When the CRU Email Search Engine… http://www.eastangliaemails.com/search.php …was introduced last week, I searched for “watts”, since I’m a regular contributor of guest posts at WUWT, to see if … Continue reading

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>Happy Thanksgiving

>Happy Thanksgiving to my visitors from the U.S. For those outside the U.S., and for those celebrating the holiday today but who also have time to read a post, I’ve just finished More Detail On The Multiyear Aftereffects Of ENSO … Continue reading

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>More Detail On The Multiyear Aftereffects Of ENSO – Part 2 – La Nina Events Recharge The Heat Released By El Nino Events AND…

>…During Major Traditional ENSO Events, Warm Water Is Redistributed Via Ocean Currents. INTRODUCTION This is Part 2 of a multipart post. It addresses critical comments about my earlier posts that dealt with the multiyear aftereffects of major traditional El Nino … Continue reading

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>What’s Wrong With This Graph?

>The following graph of global temperature anomalies is from the “The Copenhagen Diagnosis, 2009: Updating the world on the Latest Climate Science.” The report was released today with obvious intent. I scrolled as far as Figure 3, then copied it, … Continue reading

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>Mid-November 2009 SST Anomaly Update

>Global SST anomalies are still elevated, but they have not changed appreciably over the past few weeks. They are approximately 0.05 deg C lower than the peak earlier this year. http://i48.tinypic.com/n4ihj4.png Global SST Anomalies NINO3.4 SST anomalies for the week … Continue reading

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>More Detail On The Multiyear Aftereffects Of ENSO – Part 1 – El Nino Events Warm The Oceans

>This is part 1 of a multipart post. It addresses critical comments about my earlier posts that dealt with the multiyear aftereffects of significant traditional El Nino events. Two specific El Nino events, those in 1986/87/88 and the 1997/98, caused … Continue reading

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>Will The 2009/10 El Nino Become A “Super” El Nino?

>One of the indicators that many El Nino watchers keep tabs on is the animated cross-sectional view of subsurface temperature anomalies of the equatorial Pacific that’s available from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC): http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/wkxzteq.shtml Figure 1 is a copy … Continue reading

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>Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record…

>…And It Will Be Exploited By Those Who Fail To Understand The Reasons For The Rise UPDATE (January 22, 2010): Corrected typo in paragraph after Figure 11. 1956 should have read 1856.   UPDATE (November 10, 2009): For those who … Continue reading

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>October 2009 SST Anomaly Update

>MONTHLY SST ANOMALY MAP The map of Global OI.v2 SST anomalies for October 2009 downloaded from the NOMADS website is shown below. http://i37.tinypic.com/2yv2olg.png October 2009 SST Anomalies Map (Global SST Anomaly = +0.275 deg C) MONTHLY OVERVIEW Global SST anomalies … Continue reading

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