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Weekly Arctic Sea Ice Contest


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Prelim of -22k tonight...I am starting to wonder seriously about JAXA though because there's no way a significant portion of Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin, and the areas east of Greenland aren't freezing with 850s running -20C to -30C in these areas during the lowest sun angle of the year. Although the coldest air doesn't arrive until after tomorrow, you have to wonder about the accuracy of day-to-day readings and whether the source is really intended for weekly verification, especially when other sources disagree.

Nansen shows a huge spike in sea ice:

DMI 30% concentration also shows us in the middle of the pack:

Environment Canada ice maps show well more ice in Foxe Basin than the popular Cryosphere Today, and have for a while. You'd think the Canadians would be following this pretty closely considering navigation, local temperature forecasts, etc...there's a two day lag however with Cryosphere Today so we don't know how much is frozen unfortunately in reality.

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You can clearly see the ice expanded less over the last 2 days on the satellite images. The day to day changes in jaxa correspond well to changes in the satellite images. NANSEN is also only through the 7th and Jaxa also showed a spike through the 7th.

If you look closer at DMI it is showing very similar to what JAXA is showing.. we are close to 06 07 and 09 while 05 and 08 are higher. Jaxa just looks lower because 02 03 and 04 are listed and are much higher. It's very similar to JAXA, and you wouldn't expect perfect similarity anyways since one is 15% and the other 30%.

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Week 11 Scores, congrats Mallow:

MallowTheCloud	243000
ElTacoman	228000
Consensus	226000
Roger Smith  	223000
frivolousz21	209000
Normal		193000
Nzucker		193000
skierinvermont 	138000
grcjrsc		134000
MN transplant	122000
winterwxluvr	105000

Cumulative:

Normal		1169000
skierinvermont 	1153000
ElTacoman	895000
MN transplant	830000
Consensus	822000
Nzucker		792000
frivolousz21	633000
grcjrsc		587000
Roger Smith  	331000
winterwxluvr	193000
blazess556	71000
BethesdaBoy	64000
Organizing Low	49000
MallowTheCloud	-43000
Ytterbium        -171000

Average Error:

Normal		143727
skierinvermont 	145182
ElTacoman	160500
MN transplant	167000
Consensus	175273
Nzucker		178000
grcjrsc		191300
frivolousz21	192455
Roger Smith  	219909
winterwxluvr	225875
MallowTheCloud	253909

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Cumulative:

Normal        1169000
skierinvermont     1153000
ElTacoman    895000
MN transplant    830000
Consensus    822000
Nzucker        792000
frivolousz21    633000
grcjrsc        587000
Roger Smith      331000
winterwxluvr    193000
blazess556    71000
BethesdaBoy    64000
Organizing Low    49000
MallowTheCloud    -43000
Ytterbium        -171000

Average Error:

Normal        143727
skierinvermont     145182
ElTacoman    160500
MN transplant    167000
Consensus    175273
Nzucker        178000
grcjrsc        191300
frivolousz21    192455
Roger Smith      219909
winterwxluvr    225875
MallowTheCloud    253909

I love how "Normal" is winning. :lol:

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I love how "Normal" is winning. :lol:

Yes Ugh.. I shouldn't have guessed so high last week. I think the "Average" for last week of 561k was somewhat misleading because the week before and after are much lower, so I think that it was sort of a fluke that that week averaged 561k. There were a couple really high years in there but then this week there is nothing above 600k.. it makes my guess of 730k look kind of silly.I'm pretty sure we'll get over 600 this week.. there is some flash freezing of Foxe and Hudson's Bay going on and they are at record late freeze dates

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It's weird.. we actually have negative skill. Just shows how human emotions get in the way of objectivity.. Somebody should just start guessing normal every week and beat us.

I do admit to guessing too high some weeks because I wanted it to freeze, but I swear I will get above normal by the end of the 52-week contest.

Prelim of 86k tonight.

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"Four days remain... "

Thank goodness.

I wonder if we'll see the Greenland ice contacting Iceland this winter, it has been a long time. Ice surrounding Iceland was common in the Maunder/LIA.

Today will help your cause Roger. Prelim of +79k from JAXA with the -35C 850s over Hudson Bay.

I doubt you'll get that ice near Iceland due to the strong -NAO blocking making it warmer there. It's been cold towards the Barents Sea and Fram Strait but the ice will run up against warmer waters with the -NAO and widespread above average SST in the North Atlantic.

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Not this week, but check out the 144h GFS and beyond (European sector), the flow becomes northeasterly down the east coast of Greenland and Iceland is surrounded by sub-510 dm thickness for days. I think the ice margin is going to expand rapidly in that sector over the next 2-3 weeks.

Yeah the ECM shows that as well....very cold temperatures in the Atlantic Arctic with large areas of -20C to -25C 850mb temperatures over Svalbard, eastern Greenland, Iceland, Barents Sea, etc. We should gain a lot there although we'll struggle on the North American side to gain much more.

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Dude wtf you ginxed us last week too angry.gif

We better get a decent gain today with all that cold air over Baffin Bay....I swear, it's like pulling teeth to get the ice to expand this season, as if cold air doesn't freeze water anymore.

As a preview, next week looks poor on the North American side though we should see some gains in the Sea of Okhostk with the arctic outbreak north of Japan as well as large gains in the Atlantic Arctic.

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