Friday, April 28, 2017

Arctic Snow sublimation physics is very hard to evaluate, but happens to be another very important reason why snow creates deeper cooling.

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~ Mid April top centimeter of compact snow takes about 5 days to vaporize ~ Top 1 cm may have wind polished very thin ice only seen by sun ...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Astounding sea ice velocities suggest free flowing sea ice never consolidated

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   NASA EOSDIS  recent Worldview,  already having Goodbye Waves Upper Right,  signifying heavy melting from easily broken apart sea ice,  ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

déjà vu: How Beaufort sea early open water becomes important much later

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NOAA HRPT latest visual animation Mainly April 5, 2017.   Beaufort sea water arises from a short winter slumber,  with sea ice measured q...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Proving snow sublimation being strongly linked to Arctic inversions

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~A great deal of energy is necessary to sublimate snow to water vapor. ~This energy likely creates a shallow cooling layer on top of snow s...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Consequential applications #2, where is sea ice melting today?

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~                                           Ts=Ttsi        When the mean daily surface temperature is equal to the mean daily top of sea i...

Consequential applications gained from the First Rule of Sea Ice Horizon Refraction

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~Far from  exotic "interesting mirages" ,  the first rule of sea ice refraction theorized from multiple horizon observations gives...
Monday, March 20, 2017

First rule of sea ice horizon refraction proven.

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~Ts>=Ttsi,  Surface temperature is always greater or equal than top of sea ice temperature ~ Recommendation for buoy thermistors:  measu...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Rogue Polar vortices, one meets a Cyclone and closes down the Northeast Coast of North America

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~NWWO strikes again,  leaves a last taste of wild temperature variations. ~ A rogue vortex came from afar       We pay attention to co...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Varying thermal fluxes as portrayed by sea ice horizons.

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~A few examples. ~Clouds help discern 2 distinct albedo reactions.   At stake is this graph done by very capable mathematician Tamino,  e...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Summer greater cloudiness thermal flux mystery resolved

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~Has huge implications with respect to sea ice melt season. ~ Partial cloud cover reduces sea ice albedo,  this was captured by horizon ref...