Friday, December 23, 2016

Thinner sea ice adds a whole lot of heat to the dark Arctic Ocean lower atmosphere, changing its circulation.

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A paper published in 1996 by Steffen and DeMaria: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035%3C2067:...
Monday, December 19, 2016

A much warmer Arctic:visual proof

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    December 19 2016 NOAA HRPT (darker),  December 18 1987 USSR Meteor IR.   Huge differences starting with surface temperatures,  a go...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Polar vortex spin off vortices, North Pole Cold Temperatures are Southwards well away from the Pole

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~Polar vortex is the entire spinning of the Polar lower troposphere like a cyclone ~Vortices created within, sometimes one , two 3 or 4. ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Dramatic Arctic Warming captured with ice extent and temperatures: Area under the DMI 80 temperature curve biggest in 2016 in direct relation to substantial daily open water area.

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Average Arctic Ocean surface temperatures have a close relation to either sea ice or open water total areas.   These three measurable g...
Friday, December 9, 2016

From warm year to warmer: A different icescape world in 5 years

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Sea ice greatest feature is the recent memory it encapsulates,  it is planet Earth's graph  displaying not only daily but more monthly/...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

The "Perfect Storm" 1 month late minus the hurricane merge

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"Here we are in the graze of winter" John Mellencamp   Once upon a time,  there was a season for scary combinations of wea...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Late one sided winter start, example of what thick sea ice did regularly months earlier, and what happens later when less sea ice is looser pack

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We follow here the progression or regression of the first dominant Anticyclone to cover the Arctic Ocean.  In the Past , Siberian cold cont...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Unprecedented Arctic Ocean surface Air warming and computer modeling, are they integrating the sea ice current morphology?

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First the unprecedented warming bit.   Autumn early winter 2016 outclasses all others.   DMI North of 80 surface temperature s easily...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Arctic Ocean air in total darkness enormous warmth, even in clear skies with partial North Atlantic air advection.

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~Only one thing does that: ocean heat. CMC Nov 21,  1800 UTC,  Surface Analysis.  Total darkness, varied in location -4 C to -20 C Arct...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Dispersed, emaciated, heat diminished sea ice barely holding together as once upon a time. 1988

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28 years ago,  Mid-November 1988,  sea ice was fierce,  consolidated,  encouraged the build up of winter.  Its ice was expansive ,  all th...