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>Opposing North Pacific and Indian Ocean SST Residuals
>INTRODUCTION I posted an interesting comparative graph of SST anomaly residuals of the North Pacific and Indian Oceans in Individual Ocean SST Anomalies In Perspective. Refer to Figure 1. The two...
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>The Reemergence Mechanism
>INTRODUCTION I provided a number of quotes from Newman et al (2003) “ENSO-Forced Variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation” in my post Misunderstandings about the PDO – REVISED that ran in...
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>ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Data
>UPDATE October 19, 2009 On October 15, 2009, the NODC corrected errors in the Ocean Heat Content data for the period of April through June 2009. This post has been updated with that corrected data....
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>North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Governed By Natural...
>UPDATE October 22, 2009 On October 15, 2009, the NODC corrected errors in the Ocean Heat Content data for the period of April through June 2009. This post has been updated with that corrected data....
View Article>GODAS Subsurface Temperature Anomaly Animations – January 1979 to December 2009
>The NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) Animations webpage allows users to view .gif animations of their various datasets. I have wanted to study three of them but have been...
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More on Trenberth’s Missing Heat
In the post Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat, we discussed the recent Balmaseda et al (2013) paper “Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content”, of which Kevin...
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A Very Ridiculous Comment by the Author of a Recent SkepticalScience Post
I returned to a recent post at SkepticalScience to examine what the author had to say about two papers: Meehl et al (2011) and Meehl et al (2013). [We discussed Meehl et al (2013) here.] I am now...
View ArticleWill the Next El Niño Bring an End to the Slowdown in Global Surface Warming?
Numerous scientific papers have reported the hiatus in global surface warming will end with the next El Niño event. But according to a new paper by Chen and Tung published today online in ScienceMag...
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Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming
UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: I added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and I corrected a typo. # # # Ocean heat content and...
View ArticleCalifornia Niño/Niña
This is a quick post about a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that had previously not been described. The paper flew by under the radar back in April. Initial Note: The “California Niño/Niña” is...
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