Monthly Archives: February 2014

An Odd Mix of Reality and Misinformation from the Climate Science Community on England et al. (2014)

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

In this post, we’ll discuss a recent article and blog post about the recently published England et al. (2014).  This post includes portions of past posts and a number of new discussions and illustrations. We’ve already discussed (post here) the paper England … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Climate Model Failings, Climate Model Problems, El Nino-La Nina Processes, Tamino | 22 Comments

Mid-February 2014 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in the equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170W-120W) are a commonly used metric for the frequency, strength and duration of El Niño and La Niña events.  For the week centered on Wednesday February … Continue reading →

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El Niño and La Niña Basics: Introduction to the Pacific Trade Winds

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

[UPDATE:  I corrected the dates in the title blocks of Figures 10 and 11.  My thanks to blogger Bob.moe for finding the typos.] England et al. (2014) Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus continues … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes | 61 Comments

Cowtan and Way (2013) Adjustments Exaggerate Climate Model Failings at the Poles and Do Little to Explain the Hiatus

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

We’ve already discussed Cowtan and Way’s infilling of HADCRUT4 data in the post On Cowtan and Way (2013) “Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends”.  The paper is available here.  In that earlier post, … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Climate Model Failings, Climate Model Problems, HADCRUT4 | 7 Comments

January 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Initial Notes:  This post contains graphs of running trends in global surface temperature anomalies for periods of 13+ and 16+ years using GISS global (land+ocean) surface temperature data.  They indicate that we have not seen a warming halt and slowdown this … Continue reading →

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El Niño or La Nada for the 2014/15 ENSO Season

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

El Niño and La Niña events are the dominant modes of natural climate variability on Earth, which is why the state of the tropical Pacific is continuously monitored.  El Niños and La Niñas impact weather patterns globally.  As a number … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes | 20 Comments

January 2013 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies for January 2013.  It was downloaded from the NOMADS website. The contour levels are set at 0.5 deg C, and … Continue reading →

Posted in SST Update | 11 Comments

Quick Comments on England et al. (2014)

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

England et al. (2014) paper Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus has been getting a lot of press around the blogosphere. The HockeySchtick has an excellent overview here,  Anthony Watts introduced the paper … Continue reading →

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On Don Easterbrook’s Updated Projection

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Don Easterbrook has updated his projection graph. Unfortunately, he did not update the graph that I complained about a few weeks ago, shown on the left in Figure 1. In that graph his projections started around 2010. He appears to … Continue reading →

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The Hotspot in the North Pacific

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

I received a couple of emails over the weekend about a news article that mentioned sea surface temperature anomalies as high as 7 deg F in the North Pacific. I took a quick look for the article but wasn’t been … Continue reading →

Posted in SST Update, The Blob | 19 Comments