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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 23 2014 – 1,156,000 sq km above Normal

Published on August 23, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 23 2014 – 1,156,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 234. Data here.

NOAA – 184 Low Min Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21. Some records demolished by 11F

Published on August 23, 2014August 23, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

184 Low Min Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21 according to the NOAA.

Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.

Note that Stambaugh MI has 91 years of data. And the record was demolished by 11F.

20F as a low on Aug 14. Wow.

NOAA – 1025 Low Max Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21. Some records Smashed by 16F

Published on August 23, 2014August 23, 2014 by sunshinehours12 Comments

1025 Low Max Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21 according to the NOAA.

A “Low Max” means that the maximum temperatures for the day was the lowest it has ever been.

This indicates daytime cooling.

Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.

Note that Dyer NV has 111 years of data. And the record was smashed by 16F.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 23 2014 – A 39,000 sq km gain

Published on August 23, 2014 by sunshinehours17 Comments

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 23 2014 – -1,071,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 234. Data here.

A 39,000 sq km gain. The second gain in 4 days,

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 22 2014 – NSIDC data updated

Published on August 22, 2014August 22, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

NOTE: The data from NSIDC has a Missing column that is usually 0. Today it is 0.00054.

However, NSIDC did publish a new set of data several hours after I did my initial post. Previous post here.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 22 2014 – 1,189,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 233. Data here.

Solar versus Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Anomaly

Published on August 22, 2014 by sunshinehours12 Comments

A request. (I don’t usually do requests)

Solar data from here. I graphed the highlighted items.

#                Quarterly Daily Solar Data
#
#                         Sunspot       Stanford GOES15
#           Radio  SESC     Area          Solar  X-Ray  ------ Flares ------
#           Flux  Sunspot  10E-6   New     Mean  Bkgd    X-Ray      Optical
#  Date     10.7cm Number  Hemis. Regions Field  Flux   C  M  X  S  1  2  3
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
2014 07 01  152    154      850      1    -999   B9.6   5  1  0 14  1  0  0

Anomaly means the difference from 1981-2010 average. CMXS just means the number of C,M,X and S class flares added together.

Discuss.

MASIE Arctic Aug 22 2014 – Tiny Increase – 6 regions showed an increase

Published on August 22, 2014August 22, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Aug 22 2014 MASIE Update – Tiny Increase – 6 regions showed an increase – 5 showed a drop

Data here. Click for bigger.

Region	146 days ago	End	Last 145	Last 28	Last 14	Last 7	Last 3	Last 1
Chukchi Sea	966,006	414,888	-551,119	-213,679	-131,138	-84,122	-36,167	-10,773
Hudson Bay	1,260,903	49,883	-1,211,020	-141,278	-87,674	-43,060	-26,096	-9,259
Central Arctic	3,221,921	3,024,778	-197,143	-166,592	-149,215	-67,937	-23,284	-4,362
East Siberian Sea	1,087,137	584,188	-502,949	-391,822	-245,053	-77,401	-30,430	-4,327
Laptev Sea	897,845	18,201	-879,644	-328,371	-150,205	-42,348	-20,026	-863
Bering Sea	697,324	0	-697,324	-15	0	0	0	0
Baltic Sea	15,337	0	-15,337	0	0	0	0	0
Sea of Okhotsk	853,240	0	-853,240	0	0	0	0	0
Yellow Sea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence	1,688,530	10,260	-1,678,270	-92,978	-39,638	-4,648	484	104
Beaufort Sea	1,070,445	704,602	-365,843	-113,145	-121,321	-72,404	-36,015	875
Kara Sea	933,859	161,310	-772,549	-276,831	-66,476	-42,057	-15,631	3,751
Greenland Sea	603,416	254,242	-349,174	-96,417	-32,266	-26,568	3,042	5,443
Canadian Archipelago	853,214	517,621	-335,593	-176,855	-104,532	-20,359	-2,659	6,591
Barents Sea	645,917	123,797	-522,120	41,552	26,312	13,434	10,070	14,536

Northern Hemisphere (Total)	14,805,115	5,864,912	-8,940,203	-1,956,432	-1,101,208	-467,469	-176,713	1,715

NH (Average Loss per Day)			-61,234	-69,873	-78,658	-66,781	-58,904	1,715