9 9 Global mean temperature Global
average sea level Northern hemisphere snow cover Observations of recent climate change
Not exact matches
So the main issue for me is that all «serious» studies show only «statistical trends» having some effects on some measurable quantities, (slight increase of
average temperature, slight increase of
sea level, slight decrease of
northern, but not southern,
sea ice,..)
Northern sea ice is nearly back to
average levels globally for the first time in at least a decade after years of spectacular declines.
Air temperatures at the 925 hPa
level were 1 to 3 degrees Celsius (2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) below
average for a large area stretching from the
northern Kara
Sea, through the Laptev
Sea, and into north - central Eurasia.
The figure below (Figure 5 a-c) provided by Cecilia Bitz, and similar plots provided by Oleg M. Pokrovsky and the NIC Group, shows the
sea level pressure field centered over the
Northern Hemisphere for July 2008, July 2007, and for July
average conditions (climatology).
Air temperatures at the 925 hPa
level (approximately 2,500 feet above
sea level) were more than 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1981 to 2010 average over the central Arctic Ocean and northern Barents Sea, and as much as 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average over the Chukchi S
sea level) were more than 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1981 to 2010
average over the central Arctic Ocean and
northern Barents
Sea, and as much as 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average over the Chukchi S
Sea, and as much as 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above
average over the Chukchi
SeaSea.
Observed changes in (a) global
average surface temperature; (b) global
average sea level rise from tide gauge (blue) and satellite (red) data and (c)
Northern Hemisphere snow cover for March - April.
The Arctic had a weak Dipole
Sea Level Pressure (SLP) with a low on the Eurasian Side and a high pressure region from north of the Bering Strait across
northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term
average (1981 - 2010).
Estimates of ice volume in
northern hemisphere permafrost range from 1.1 to 3.7 x1013 m3 (Zhang et al., 1999), equivalent to 0.03 to 0.10 m of global -
average sea level.
For example, additional evidence of a warming trend can be found in the dramatic decrease in the extent of Arctic
sea ice at its summer minimum (which occurs in September), decrease in spring snow cover in the
Northern Hemisphere, increases in the global
average upper ocean (upper 700 m or 2300 feet) heat content (shown relative to the 1955 — 2006
average), and in
sea -
level rise.
These graphs show
sea level pressure anomalies or differences from
average sea level pressure in the
Northern Hemisphere for April, May, June, and July 2016.
Since May,
sea -
level pressure anomalies over
northern Australia have been persistently high, while pressure anomalies over the tropical eastern Pacific have been mostly lower than
average.
Variability in
sea level pressure decreases on
average in the Southern Hemisphere, while in the
Northern Hemisphere there are regional differences.»