The week of data that had been missing from the weekly Reynolds OI.v2 data because of the government shutdown has been inserted. Thank you, NOAA!!!
I’ve shortened the span of the weekly data. As noted in the mid-April 2013 update, I’ve started using January 2001 so that the variations can be seen AND so that you can see how “flat” global sea surface temperature anomalies have been since then.
The base years for anomalies are 1971-2000, which are the standard base years from the NOAA NOMADS website for this dataset.
PRELIMINARY MONTHLY DATA
The preliminary global sea surface temperature anomalies are continuing their decline from their seasonally highs. The global sea surface temperature anomalies are presently at about +0.27 deg C.
Monthly Global SST Anomalies
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The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170W-120W) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency, and duration of El Niño and La Niña events. Based on the preliminary data, October 2013 NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies are a little below zero (about -0.25 deg C). The threshold for an El Niño is considered to be warmer than or equal to +0.5 deg C and for a La Niña, it’s cooler than or equal to -0.5 deg C. So the reading of -0.25 deg C indicates the tropical Pacific is in ENSO-neutral conditions. Also refer to the weekly data that follows.
Monthly NINO3.4 SST Anomalies
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WEEKLY DATA
Weekly NINO3.4 region (5S-5N, 170W-120W) sea surface temperature anomalies for the week centered on October 23, 2013 are below zero but not cooler than the threshold of a La Niña. The weekly NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies were approximately -0.26 deg C.
Weekly NINO3.4 SST Anomalies
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The weekly Global SST Anomalies have ended their sharp decline. It’s likely a temporary stop on their way back down. They are presently about +0.23 deg C.
Weekly Global SST Anomalies
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE EL NIÑO AND LA NIÑA AND THEIR LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON GLOBAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES?
Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Niño and La Niña events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. I’ve searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years and ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal in either dataset. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Last year I published an ebook (pdf) about the phenomena called El Niño and La Niña. It’s titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Niño Southern Oscillation. It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Niño and La Niña events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 31+ years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data that’s available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warming—and there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.
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Regards
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The Sea Surface Temperature anomaly data used in this post is available through the NOAA NOMADS website:
http://nomad1.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/pdisp_sst.sh
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Hi Bob, many thanks for the update and all your sterling work.
Help, can you shed any light on why Reynolds have posted a number for October a week early? Still data up to the 30th to come?
Also any idea how the +0.27C is calculated? So far in Oct there have been 4 weekly numbers the highest being +0.26C on the 2nd followed by +0.25C (9th), +0.22C (16th), +0.23C (23rd). So a bit puzzled as to how the month can be higher than any of the component weeks. What am I missing?
TIA
Green Sand: Unfortunately, I can’t answer your questions, because the numbers don’t seem to average out as you’ve noted. It almost looks as though they used a couple of the warmer weeks in September, like a mid-month split between September and October, but that wouldn’t make sense, Maybe things are skewed because of the shutdown. Hopefully, things will fall closer into line when the final number are published.
Many thanks Bob, will await the final number.
Hi Bob,
I have been using this web site to track ocean surface currents and sea surface temperatures:
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/skill.html
One can watch the Gulf Stream [I feel that it is an indicator of overall ocean/atmospheric heat content] and see the changes as the Sun moves from +24 to -24.
With the Antarctic not melting as fast as expected, it could be a precursor of La Nina. What do you think?
Jerry
Jerry, do you have a link to the specific webpage you’re looking at?
Regards
Hi,
Enter “Atlantic Ocean” for many Atlantic ocean locations. Main Gulf Stream link ->
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/glfstr.html
One of many great temperature/current graphs. Select SST for sea surface temperatures.Or Currents for surface wind driven/heat driven currents.
For the La Nina, use
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/equpac.html
and
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/humbol.html
Thanks for all the links, Jerry. Okay. back to your original question which was, “With the Antarctic not melting as fast as expected, it could be a precursor of La Nina. What do you think?”
I’ve never heard of a delay in Antarctic sea ice melt as a precursor to a La Nina. (That doesn’t mean one won’t develop, though, since we haven’t had a delay like that as far as I know. We’ll just have to watch and see.) But based on all of the usual ENSO indicators from the NOAA weekly update…
Click to access enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf
….I would tend to agree with NOAA that we’re looking at ENSO neutral this season.
Regards, and thanks again for the links.
Bob hi
I know we now have to reach deep into the past to give the warmists any hope, but its useful taking your graphs back to 96/97 so we can compare the el nino 98 period against all that has come since…
Hi Pete: I delete the early portion of the weekly data so that the most recent wiggles will show. If I brought the weekly data back to 1996/97, they wouldn’t be as easy to make out. And for a longer-term look, I also show the monthly Reynolds OI.v2 data.
Regards