Arctic Sea Ice Extent ‘Calendar’ 2015 Visual Aid

I came across a calendar tool for [R] (the language I do the programming in) in the package openAir.

With a lot of kludging (the package was designed to visualize air pollution data) I can visualize the Anomaly % for the year 2015. By anomaly % I mean if the mean is 10,000,000 sq km for 1981-2010 and the anomaly is -500,000 then the anomaly % is -5%.

Darkest red days are closest to the mean. Light colors are far below the mean.

Arctic Calendar 2015 - Anomaly Percent - sunshinehours.wordpress.com

 

 

South / North

One thought on “Arctic Sea Ice Extent ‘Calendar’ 2015 Visual Aid

  1. I commented about something similar in one of the previous posts about how it was back in 2003 when the summer melt season was essentially “normal” as compared to the long-term average. That in the past decade we’ve had steep and dramatic summer melt increases is readily apparent, but should be put into context of the larger overall picture of Arctic sea ice and what may come. No one at NOAA has mentioned anything about the volume increases seen since 2010, or why 2010 is a reversal of the downward trend line. No one is saying anything about the wide inter- and intra-annual variability in Arctic extent between 2007 and 2012. What is causing these phenomena? And more importantly, how does it relate to CO2 levels since the whole AGW debate centers on industrial and anthropogenic release of CO2? I would like to know what the +8°C SST anomaly off the Faroe Islands in the far north Atlantic is the result of, since its persistence and location is suspect.

    Lots of questions to ask, and not a whole lot of answers by the experts. Of course, that might be due to the fact that climate change is settled science.

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