Monthly Archives: July 2011

ENSO Indices Do Not Represent The Process Of ENSO Or Its Impact On Global Temperature

UPDATE (August 7, 2011): I’ve added a supplement to this post to cover a topic I excluded from the original. Refer to Supplement To “ENSO Indices Do Not Represent The Process Of ENSO Or Its Impact On Global Temperature”. INITIAL NOTES I’ve attempted … Continue reading

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Mid-July 2011 SST Anomaly Update

NINO3.4 NINO3.4 SST anomalies (a commonly used El Niño-Southern Oscillation Index) are still hovering a little below zero. For the week centered on July 13, 2011, the NINO3.4 SST anomalies are approximately -0.06 deg C. NINO3.4 SST Anomalies – Short-Term … Continue reading

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An Introduction To The Hadley Centre’s New HADSST3 Sea Surface Temperature Data

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has added the Hadley Centre’s new Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset HADSST3 to their Climate Explorer. (Thanks to Dr. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh for the update.) The following post is a quick introduction to … Continue reading

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June 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

UPDATE: I’ve corrected the “Rest-Of-The-World” graph under the heading of The East Pacific Versus the Rest Of The World. THE EAST PACIFIC VERSUS THE REST OF THE WORLD Again this month I’m going to start the update with the two … Continue reading

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Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic Global Warming?

This post is an expansion on my earlier post Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies – East Pacific Versus The Rest Of The World. In that post, I broke the satellite-era Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly data for the global oceans into … Continue reading

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