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2014 Global Temperatures


StudentOfClimatology

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Global surface temperatures have been rising steadily since last La Nina and recently temperatures have been warmer in second half of year. So currently on pace for a record setting year. 

 

Am I reading that right, GISS has 2014 warmer than 2011 by 14 degrees?

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If the warm NPAC/NATL SSTs remain elevated/expand into the autumn despite the lengthening wave train/lack of a Niño, and the MJO remains weak, I could see a record being set on at least GISS and NCDC, perhaps HADCRUT4 as well. I'm not ruling that out.

However, I don't see any supporting evidence for that right now, neither statistically nor dynamically. For the time being, I think 2014 will end up 2nd on the aggregated land surface avg, behind 2010.

 

I'd give 50/50 of breaking on the aggregate. Thus far all three are .08-.09C warmer than the first 6 months last year, and last year only fell short by around .05 from 2010. 

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There hast be some sort of GHG NH peak insolation feedback going on. 

 

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That's truly an uncanny difference between the hemispheres.  The NPAC is pretty nicely explained by the "stubborn" ridge that's been sitting there for months, but I wonder what's heating the North and Central Atlantic like that.

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That's truly an uncanny difference between the hemispheres.  The NPAC is pretty nicely explained by the "stubborn" ridge that's been sitting there for months, but I wonder what's heating the North and Central Atlantic like that.

This has been happening every year since 2010 and appears to be more pronounced as we move forward. Southern Hemisphere SSTA will peak in the summer as well but the signal is not as strong. NH SSTA should decline into the winter. 

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That's truly an uncanny difference between the hemispheres. The NPAC is pretty nicely explained by the "stubborn" ridge that's been sitting there for months, but I wonder what's heating the North and Central Atlantic like that.

The thread I posted looks at how this sort of behavior has occurred in the past as a feedback to a warming planet..leading to serious consequences.

The Hadley cells over both basins are very broad and oriented poleward of their average. Both Cells have behaving oddly in recent summers over the NH. Could definitely be a feedback to AGW, or it could be a natural oscillation of some sort, not sure which. It is assumed to have occurred in the 1930s/1940s as well.

Haven't seen anything like that over the Southern Hemisphere.

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The Hadley cells over both basins are very broad and oriented poleward of their average. Both Cells have behaving oddly in recent summers over the NH. Could definitely be a feedback to AGW, or it could be a natural oscillation of some sort, not sure which. It is assumed to have occurred in the 1930s/1940s as well.

Haven't seen anything like that over the Southern Hemisphere.

Just thinking out loud, the troposphere temperature hasn't increased as much as modeled too at the current CO2 levels.  The Hadley cells have been unusually large.  Could the Hadley cells be dispersing CO2 induced tropospheric heat?

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That's truly an uncanny difference between the hemispheres.  The NPAC is pretty nicely explained by the "stubborn" ridge that's been sitting there for months, but I wonder what's heating the North and Central Atlantic like that.

 

Spurious. Perhaps it should be thoroughly investigated and debunked in a peer-reviewed paper.

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Re: the NH anomaly, this is getting a big off topic regarding current global temps, but was reading discussion about the Hadley cells and Earth's climate in the past and it has been suggested that from ~30 My to ~3 My ago the SH had the 3-cell configuration currently seen today but the NH had a more equable climate with 1 cell only. During this period Antarctica had an ice cap whereas Greenland was ice free. Of course this was before the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, but as the planet warms, one would still expect the NH to return to equable conditions much sooner than the SH.

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Re: the NH anomaly, this is getting a big off topic regarding current global temps, but was reading discussion about the Hadley cells and Earth's climate in the past and it has been suggested that from ~30 My to ~3 My ago the SH had the 3-cell configuration currently seen today but the NH had a more equable climate with 1 cell only. During this period Antarctica had an ice cap whereas Greenland was ice free. Of course this was before the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, but as the planet warms, one would still expect the NH to return to equable conditions much sooner than the SH.

 

If you get time can you post what one cell looks like?  Thanks in advance.

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Global SSTA's have passed 2013. Now around .385C+. This is 3-4 weeks earlier than the 2013 peak.

 

And it's probably not over. 

 

Weatherbell monthly so far is 0.152C+ with the dailies around .175C+

 

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This August is very likely to break the monthly record for SSTa again.

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This August is very likely to break the monthly record for SSTa again.

 

With 4 days of data in? Seems way too early to say.

 

I will say that with the blocking high pressure over much of the Arctic over the next 7+ days, we will see increased throughiness over parts of the North Pacific and north Atlantic, and will likely seeing some cooling in spots.

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With 4 days of data in? Seems way too early to say.

 

I will say that with the blocking high pressure over much of the Arctic over the next 7+ days, we will see increased throughiness over parts of the North Pacific and north Atlantic, and will likely seeing some cooling in spots.

You are right, it's a premature call.  Here is what I basing my assessment on, however.  The August monthly average was higher than the week one SST level 7 out of the last 10 years.  While this is not a full indicator of whats to come, I think it's fair to say that I'm playing the odds of a later august/early September SST peak.  I'm betting on a horse that is way ahead of the pack out of the gate and is statistically proven to finish strong.

 

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You are right, it's a premature call.  Here is what I basing my assessment on, however.  The August monthly average was higher than the week one SST level 7 out of the last 10 years.  While this is not a full indicator of whats to come, I think it's fair to say that I'm playing the odds of a later august/early September SST peak.  I'm betting on a horse that is way ahead of the pack out of the gate and is statistically proven to finish strong.

 

 

 

Fair enough.

 

But we can definitely say that part of the reason the SSTAs in the NH are so warm is due to persistent patterns...if those change (and what we're seeing now is something of a change), that could definitely cause cooling from current levels.

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Very weird looking SSTAs. The NH is torching, while the SH is about average.

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Question is what caused the sudden spike this summer? It's reflected in the CERES radiation data too, big jump in OLR, actually set the NH record by a wide margin. http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/order_data.php

It's to the point now where the NH is now emitting more than it's receiving, which is unusual at this stage of orbit.

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Very weird looking SSTAs. The NH is torching, while the SH is about average.

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Question is what caused the sudden spike this summer? It's reflected in the CERES radiation data too, big jump in OLR, actually set the NH record by a wide margin. http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/order_data.php

It's to the point now where the NH is now emitting more than it's receiving, which is unusual at this stage of orbit.

 

I wonder how much of this is due to relatively stable weather over NH oceans. Wind and storm systems churn surface heat out, without any major action, surface temps start to heat up.

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