Monthly Archives: July 2016

Nothing Unusual about the Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies for the Hurricane Main Development Region at the 2016 Season’s Start

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

During the hurricane season, I’ll be adding the sea surface temperatures and anomalies of the Main Development Region of hurricane development in the North Atlantic to the Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Updates.  This post will serve as a reference. OVERVIEW … Continue reading →

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June 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post provides updates of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through June 2016 and HADCRUT4 through May 2016—and of the two suppliers of satellite-based lower troposphere temperature composites … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Temperature Update, TLT and LOST Updates | 6 Comments

Say Hello to La Niña Conditions

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

A quick ENSO update. Meteorological agencies like NOAA use the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region (5S-5N, 170W-120W) of the equatorial Pacific to determine if the tropical Pacific is experiencing El Niño, La Niña or ENSO neutral (not … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015-16 El Nino Series, ENSO Update, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

June 2016 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

INITIAL NOTE This is the third month with the new format.  I’ve replaced the smoothed curve with a horizontal line that represents the Current Value. MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 … Continue reading →

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Quiz: Which 30-Year Warming Period Is Recent?

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

THREE MAPS ILLUSTRATING SIMILAR GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES OVER DIFFERENT 30-YEAR PERIODS The GISS map-making webpage allows users to create global maps of surface temperature anomalies for specific time periods or to create maps of the change in surface temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Model Failings, GISS, Model-Data LOST | 4 Comments

In Honor of the 4th of July, A Few Model-Data Comparisons of Contiguous U.S. Surface Air Temperatures

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

This post is similar in format to In Honor of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Global Warming Publicity-Founded Visit to Greenland…  As you’ll see, like Greenland, the consensus of the climate models used by the IPCC show that the models do … Continue reading →

Posted in Model-Data Comparison LSAT | 34 Comments