Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Mars Inversion moisture trap, insulation power keeping water from escaping to space

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~ESA great capture of trapped in a crater ice infers a lot of water on Mars ~The trap is a cooled atmospheric interface,   much similar to ...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Mars InSight landing spot photos suggest not so deep permafrost

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~Atmospheric refraction of a CO2 atmosphere is probably visible,  more dedicated photos are required though. ~First photographic hints at v...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

North American West Coast healthy rainy seasons need normal sea ice extent

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~ Long ignored sea ice climate permutations manifest big time ~ We look at mainly the North Pacific ~ Current El-Nino can only exacerba...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Major Polar Vortex rearrangement

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~Siberia gets back it's freezing mojo ~Canadian Arctic Upper Air is remarkably warm ~A confluence of wider Arctic Ocean open water and...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

2018 sea ice refreeze is identical to melting to minima in reverse slow motion

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~Today's 2018 JAXA extent is #1 lowest within historical record ~Since minima refreeze pattern almost exact melting in reverse ~The...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Fram Strait sea ice melting Van Gogh style

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~Long without action Fram strait appears to melt incoming sea ice rapidly direct contact with +2 C water ,  cooled a bit from a summer of c...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Slow melting Goodbye Waves examples

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~ 78 N 176 W very slow melting made obvious by individual Goodbye Waves readily identifiable day by day. ~   The waves in this case seem t...

Powerful Arctic Ocean heat feeds the dipole engine

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~The great minimum stall of 2018 highlights Not seeming warm +3 C sst near New Siberian Islands has some localized impact  .  Remember ...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Open water towards 85 North at October's gate

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    The Atlantic front East of Spitsbergen is also advancing Northwards.  It is probably the slowest overall refreeze since 2012.  There i...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Thinner sea ice always with pervasive low clouds slowed the yearly melting rate in summer, but reduced accretion and extent in winter

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~Only much sunnier Arctic Ocean summers can cause greater melts... ~There was more solar forcing prior to 2013 ~                         ...