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July ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum...
Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’ll run this poll each month in the week before the deadline,...
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August ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum...
Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’ll run this poll each month in the week before the deadline,...
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Sea Ice News Volume 3, #2
In today’s report Arctic Sea Ice on the rise again, presently in the range of normal levels Antarctic Sea Ice is at slightly above normal levels Why is early satellite data for Arctic and Antarctic Ice...
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NSIDC’s oops moment – uncoordinated changes make for an interesting 24 hours
Many of you are probably aware of some strange goings on over at The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) with their Arctic Sea ice graph, specifically, this one here: You see, up until Tuesday...
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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 6 – Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012...
First some news on the status of the WUWT Sea Ice Page. The JAXA imagery, which has been DOA ever since the failure of the AMSRE instrument on the AQUA satellite is now operational again. The plot is...
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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 7 – The next ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook forecasting...
NOTE: Poll closes at 12PM PST, Thursday, July 5th. First, in case you missed it over the weekend, the WUWT Sea Ice page has gone through an upgrade. A number of new graphs and data sources were added...
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July sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
The WUWT Extent Projection: 4.55 million square kilometers. Readers polled, 142 responded with 22.11% of responses in the range of 4.5 to 4.6 million square kilometers. 4.6 million sqkm 11.21% (72...
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ARCUS: July Sea Ice Outlook Published
WUWT comes in at the median value of 4.6 million square kilometers (they rounded up from our 4.55 submission) . It is important to note that even with the large losses in June, nobody who submitted to...
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Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 11, part 1 – new Arctic satellite extent record
PART1 – (part 2 comes later today is NOW ONLINE HERE) I’ve been noting with some humor the anticipation of a new Arctic sea ice extent minimum in the Alarmosphere. Yesterday, the frustration that there...
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September Panics and Smurphy’s Law
A layman’s view of the strange period of history we are living through Guest post by Caleb Shaw During hot spells in the summer I often find it refreshing to click onto Anthony’s “Sea Ice Page,” and to...
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Sea Ice News Volume 3 #15 – Arctic sea ice doubles in October
In Sea Ice News #14, we noted that the Arctic refreeze was the fastest ever. According to NSIDC, Arctic sea ice extent doubled in October. Arctic rapidly gaining winter ice Ice extent doubled in...
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Sea ice extent linked to ocean currents – hindcast model works
UPDATE: Perhaps in response to criticism here, MIT has changed the press release wording. See below. From MIT, now if they could work the wind patterns in, as NASA suggests, we might have a clearer...
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JAXA timing worst ever – switching Arctic Sea Ice software, right as the...
It looks as if we are about to see the turn in Arctic sea ice, and if so it will be earlier than last year. But right at that same time, JAXA has decided to switch horses mid-stream. They say …...
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Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 6: Arctic sea ice has most definitely turned the...
Plus notes on the ARCUS sea ice forecasting contest As I pointed out on September 16th in Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year – it appears that Arctic sea ice has turned the...
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On data losses -vs- geography in Cowtan and Way 2013: data dropout may...
At Climate Audit, Roman M. has a very interesting analysis that shows the surface grid cell losses from HadCRUT4 in C&W. It hones in on the issue of why the temperature differences from 2005 are...
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Sea Ice News #31
I’ve watched the hubbub over the AccuWeather video by Joe Bastardi that called NSIDC’s Sea Ice data into question, because it “seemed” to show lower Arctic Sea Ice values than that of JAXA or DMI. Here...
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Sea Ice News #35 – Less ice, more snow
This is NSIDC’s report, and since I’m on a road trip, I’m unable to do an in-depth analysis. However, the WUWT Sea Ice page has more, and you can draw your own conclusions from the data presented...
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Sea Ice News #36 – Arctic maximum ice extent reached – NANSEN data disagrees...
Now we start the slow slide into the Arctic Ice Minimum, likely sometime in September. It is important to point out that there’s a lot of ice up there, and as illustrated by the images below, the...
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Sea Ice News – Call for Arctic sea-ice forecasts, plus forecast poll
It has been awhile since I’ve done a sea-ice report. That said, not much of note has been going on in the sea-ice arena, we are in that time of year when all of the years converge into a tighter...
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