Monthly Archives: February 2010

>WHEN DID GISS ADD ERSST.v3b DATA TO THEIR MAP-MAKING WEB PAGE?

>UPDATE (March 31, 2010): Also refer to the post GISS Acknowledges Addition of ERSST.v3b Data To Their GISTEMP “Options” ################## Like many people, as soon as one of the climate change blogs (most often Lucia’s The Blackboard) announces that GISS … Continue reading

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>Mid-February 2010 SST Anomaly Update

>Not much to report. Weekly NINO3.4 SST anomalies for the week centered on February 17, 2010 show that central equatorial Pacific SST anomalies have leveled off for the past few weeks. Presently they’re at 1.21 deg C. http://i47.tinypic.com/29bm04g.png NINO3.4 SST … Continue reading

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>La Nina – The Underappreciated Portion Of ENSO

>Perform a Google Scholar search for documents including “El Nino” in quotes and there will be more than 200,000 results. On the other hand, “La Nina” will only raise 26,000+. Granted, the formal name of the coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon in … Continue reading

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>January 2010 SST Anomaly Update

>UPDATE (3-8-10): Corrected South Atlantic graph. ############### Monthly NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Have Peaked. Have Global Temperature SST Anomalies? MONTHLY SST ANOMALY MAP The map of Global OI.v2 SST anomalies for January 2010 downloaded from the NOMADS website is shown below. … Continue reading

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>OHC Linear Trends and Recent Update of NODC OHC (0-700 Meters) Data

>The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) presented its Ocean Heat Content (OHC) data in conjunction with the Levitus et al (2009) Paper. The NODC makes the data available to the public and maintains it at their GLOBAL OCEAN HEAT CONTENT … Continue reading

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>PRELIMINARY January 2010 SST Anomaly Update

>The January 2010 SST data through the NOAA NOMADS website won’t be official until January 8th, according to the schedule on the NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis Frequently Asked Questions webpage. But NOMADS as usual has produced preliminary … Continue reading

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