Category Archives: Ocean Processes

California Niño/Niña

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

This is a quick post about a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that had previously not been described.  The paper flew by under the radar back in April.

Posted in Ocean Processes | 1 Comment

Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: I added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and I corrected a typo. # # # Ocean heat content and vertically averaged temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic Ocean Warming, CAGW Proponent Arguments, Ocean Heat Content Problems, Ocean Processes | 10 Comments

Will the Next El Niño Bring an End to the Slowdown in Global Surface Warming?

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

Numerous scientific papers have reported the hiatus in global surface warming will end with the next El Niño event.  But according to a new paper by Chen and Tung published today online in ScienceMag (link to paper follows), that’s not going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Ocean Processes, The Halt In Global Warming, The Pause | 22 Comments

A Very Ridiculous Comment by the Author of a Recent SkepticalScience Post

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

I returned to a recent post at SkepticalScience to examine what the author had to say about two papers: Meehl et al (2011) and Meehl et al (2013). [We discussed Meehl et al (2013) here.] I am now convinced SkepticalScience … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, El Nino-La Nina Processes, Ocean Processes | 5 Comments

More on Trenberth’s Missing Heat

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Bob Tisdale

In the post Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat, we discussed the recent Balmaseda et al (2013) paper “Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content”, of which Kevin Trenberth was a coauthor. Dr. Roy Spencer also has a … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Ocean Heat Content Problems, Ocean Processes | 25 Comments

>GODAS Subsurface Temperature Anomaly Animations – January 1979 to December 2009

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Bob Tisdale

>The NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) Animations webpage allows users to view .gif animations of their various datasets. I have wanted to study three of them but have been frustrated with the load time and with the inability … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, Ocean Processes | 2 Comments

>North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Governed By Natural Variables

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>UPDATE October 22, 2009 On October 15, 2009, the NODC corrected errors in the Ocean Heat Content data for the period of April through June 2009. This post has been updated with that corrected data. ############### The ENSO-induced step changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Warming, Ocean Heat Content Problems, Ocean Processes, OHC Update | 12 Comments

>ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Data

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>UPDATE October 19, 2009 On October 15, 2009, the NODC corrected errors in the Ocean Heat Content data for the period of April through June 2009. This post has been updated with that corrected data. ############### The Royal Netherlands Meteorological … Continue reading →

Posted in El Nino-La Nina Processes, Ocean Heat Content Problems, Ocean Processes, OHC Update | 15 Comments

>The Reemergence Mechanism

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>INTRODUCTION I provided a number of quotes from Newman et al (2003) “ENSO-Forced Variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation” in my post Misunderstandings about the PDO – REVISED that ran in parallel at WattsUpWithThat. WUWT link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/28/misunderstandings-about-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation/ The first quote … Continue reading →

Posted in Ocean Processes | 5 Comments

>Opposing North Pacific and Indian Ocean SST Residuals

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Bob Tisdale

>INTRODUCTION I posted an interesting comparative graph of SST anomaly residuals of the North Pacific and Indian Oceans in Individual Ocean SST Anomalies In Perspective. Refer to Figure 1. The two curves opposed one another. http://i39.tinypic.com/wbyt5z.jpg Figure 1 WHAT THE … Continue reading →

Posted in Ocean Processes, SST Update | 2 Comments