What’s happening with sea ice extent?
Most people already know full well about the decline of sea ice extent in the Arctic. I’m as guilty of many others who constantly …
Oceans
Surge in Antarctic Sea Ice continues
The surge in Antarctic sea ice that occurred in the last week of February has continued, and at the start of May the sea …
North Atlantic cold blob disappears again
The North Atlantic cold blob that seems to have been with us for such a long time has warmed out since January and left …
The Polar Portal
If you are at all interested in the state of the sea ice in the Arctic or the Greenland ice cap for that matter …
Arctic Sea Ice stages late fight back
Arctic sea ice has staged something of a late fight back from the dire position it was in just two weeks ago on the …
Sudden decline in Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic sea ice extent had been doing pretty well this winter tracking last year, but on the 16th of February the extent suddenly dropped …
Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’?
I read this interesting article from the Carbon Brief about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [AMOC] and how its been weakening for some time …
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11 Feb 2021 – Arctic sea ice extent
The NSIDC reckon that Arctic sea ice extent for January was the sixth smallest on record and 6.5% below the long term average. Well …
11 Feb 2021 – Antarctic sea ice extent
The NSIDC tweeted today that the Antarctic sea ice extent in January 2020 had tied with January 2007 as the 13th smallest on record. …
9 Feb 2021 – sea surface temperature anomalies
This chart of colour filled contours of sea surface temperature anomalies has got to be the worst I’ve ever seen, but beggars can’t be …
Sea ice in Shetland
Originally tweeted by BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) on 29 January 2021. A boat has been captured in beautiful drone footage creating a channel through …
Meanwhile down in the Antarctic….
The half term report for Antarctic sea ice shows that the estimated extent to be at 4.191 million square kilometres, that’s 94.7% of the …
Arctic sea ice still holding up
The latest Arctic sea ice estimates from the NSIDC show that current levels, although at only 93.8% of the LTA, are holding up reasonably …
Arctic sea ice fights back
Arctic sea ice extents on the 24th of December were the seventh lowest on record in the NSIDC satellite series which started in 1978, …
Oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic’s puzzling ocean turbulence
Article courtesy of phys.org
Grim news as the Arctic defrost accelerates into the autumn
Temperature anomalies so far this November across the Arctic Ocean and the north of Russia are as high as 17°C above the LTA in …
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Scientists come up with yet another new metric in their vain search for the “master ring”
The obvious thing that Pinaki Chakraborty has forgotten to factor into his study – in which he finds that hurricanes now take 33 rather …
Arctic sea ice at record low levels
The latest Arctic sea ice extent are at historic lows levels for late October, which reflects the toll the warming from this years record …
Ten metre waves at K5 yesterday
There were ten metre waves yesterday at K5 in the Atlantic 150 nautical miles to the northwest of Stornoway (see red dot on chart) …
Probably a total coincidence but…
It is probably a total coincidence, but the colder SST anomalies that invaded our western Atlantic shores from late June did seem to coincide …
The quality of SST charts
These wonderful SST products (above) that I’ve been downloading and using for year from this National Center for Ocean Forecasting [NCOF] website, maintained for …
Mysterious EUCDE ship observations
There seem to be a new and mysterious collection of ship observation in the North Atlantic at the moment. I can’t find which country …
Antarctic sea ice extent highest since 2014
The southern Ocean may be melting Antarctic glaciers from below but not so much the sea ice on top I reckon the maximum sea …
Arctic sea ice minimum for 2019-20 second lowest on record
I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but it looks to me like Arctic sea ice extent might have bottomed out on …
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