More recent documentation (Hansen et al. 2010) compares alternative analyses and addresses questions about perception and reality of global warming; various choices
for the ocean data are tested; it is also shown that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions, where observations are limited.
The other problem that people mention is the «sampling bias» in the placement of the thermometers, which is even worse
for ocean data than for most land data.
Because the GISS analysis combines available sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices
for the ocean data, showing that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.
For the ocean data, GISS still uses ERSST v3b rather than the newer ERSST v4, but will switch to that file next month, when we add the June 2015 data; the collection of land station data used in that paper includes many more sources than GHCN v3.3.0 and will probably be incorporated into a future GHCN v4.
Thus if one plots all the minima of the different historical measurements, that gives a better impression of the real «background» CO2 level than the averages: see The same
for ocean data and coastal data: all are around the ice core level.
That knowledge inspired Levitus and his colleagues seven years ago to launch a United Nations - sponsored global searchand - rescue operation
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This week brings a video reconstructed from images of the Philae lander's approach to a comet, and a major new analysis of
data from the Cassini mission that bolsters the case
for a global, not just local,
ocean beneath the icy crust of Enceladus
The researchers studied temperature measurements over the last 150 years, ice core
data from Greenland from the interglacial period 12,000 years ago,
for the ice age 120,000 years ago, ice core
data from Antarctica, which goes back 800,000 years, as well as
data from
ocean sediment cores going back 5 million years.
The researchers said that while Argo has transformed
ocean observation, there is a greater need
for more and better
data.
The military uses the microwave information to detect
ocean wind speeds to feed into weather models, among other uses, but the
data happen to be nearly perfect
for sensing sea ice, says Walt Meier, a sea - ice specialist with the NSIDC.
«These
data are a fundamental reference
for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute
for the Study of Earth,
Oceans, and Space (EOS).
«
For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the
data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional
ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.
Sunke Schmidtko of the Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, and his team combined a range of
data sets on seawater properties at different locations and depths, going back to 1975.
Bigelow Laboratory
for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cy
Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important
ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cy
ocean measurements from satellite
data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Doug Smith at the UK Met Office fed key
data such as
ocean temperatures, air pressure and wind speeds
for every year from 1960 to 1995 into DePreSys, a model already used to predict weather a decade ahead.
Researchers from around the world have now pooled their
data on the movements of a wide array of marine animals, enabling them to look
for common features in how animals move throughout the world's
oceans.
And other
data suggest that this
ocean sits on a rocky mantle that could be dotted with hydrothermal vents — potential hotspots
for life.
In a field steeped in a culture of proprietary
data, such open access could be hard to accept, notes Holly Given, director of the OOI at the Consortium
for Ocean Leadership in Washington, D.C..
Scientists wire the
oceans with
data cables, permanent observatories, and robots that can roam
for years
Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision
ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science
ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement
data in near - real time
for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international
Ocean Surface Topography Science
Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.
By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope
data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global
ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern
ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates
for this event.
The BAS would also have had to set up an automated system to collect
data on the
oceans and atmosphere
for worldwide monitoring programmes.
And Sawe has started working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to explore some of their Pacific
Ocean data for another
data sonification project down the road that could add another song to the soundtrack of climate change.
This past September the National Snow and Ice
Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information
for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic
Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.
For the first time,
ocean data from Northeast Greenland reveals the long - term impact of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
«It is one of the oldest active time series stations
for this kind of
data worldwide,» explains the scientific coordinator Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research Kiel.
«The results represent a one thousand-fold increase in
data over previous attempts to characterize
ocean microbial biodiversity,» said a senior author on one of the papers, Peer Bork, during a teleconference
for reporters on 19 May, «and yet, this is still the tip of the iceberg.»
For assessing the global
ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical
data.
Cashion is a researcher
for the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute
for the
Ocean and Fisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting
data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems.
The Wave Glider, a long - duration
ocean robot designed to operate in stormy conditions and high latitudes, can stay at sea
for months patrolling
for illegal fishing, listening
for seismic events, collecting weather or
ocean data and monitoring the environment.
Scripps geophysicist David Sandwell and his team developed an algorithm to crunch the
data, accounting
for ocean waves and tides.
The
data came from NASA's Aqua satellite and was analyzed by NOAA's Center
for Coastal
Ocean Science.
«By visualizing the
data with TrackPlot, we can actually see how the whale moves underwater and this enables us to discover different kinds of foraging behaviors,» said lead author Colin Ware of the University of New Hampshire's Center
for Coastal and
Ocean Mapping.
And will mean scientists can do research
for more of the year, can reach areas they've never been able to penetrate before, and will be able to bring back huge amounts of
data on the
ocean and marine biology,» Osborne said during a speech in Cambridge, according to a ScienceInsider post by Daniel Clery.
After the Japan earthquake, seismic stations, deep -
ocean buoys and tidal gauges delivered a wealth of
data for accurate tsunami forecasts in Hawaii, California and the rest of the Pacific Rim, but public preparedness can be even more important
But
for a forecast model to work, he says, «We have to resolve the boundary conditions ----
data on tides and winds — very far away, out into the open
ocean.
The whaling ships will add a new source of
data for conditions in Arctic
Ocean waters.
For more information on the ECCO2
ocean modeling and
data synthesis project, visit: http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/.
Aside from changes in how belugas dove
for food, the nearly two decades of
data show that the whales were able to thrive in their summer and fall
ocean habitats, despite less ice cover.
In situations where objects enter Earth's atmosphere in more remote locations — over the
ocean far from land,
for example — satellites may be the only sources of
data that could be used to determine an object's orbit.
Using
data from both models, Nienhuis determined the ratio of river - to -
ocean wave strength
for each delta, and found that those deltas with a ratio greater than or equal to 1 were more likely to have multiple river channels, with deltas that project out from the shoreline.
In October Steven Miller, a researcher in the marine meteorology division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, announced that he and his team had matched 1995 satellite
data to a firsthand account from a British merchant ship, the SS Lima, and found a section of the Indian
Ocean that glowed
for three nights in a row.
Several scientists are poring over
data recorded by a robotic submarine that set a distance record
for autonomous vehicles when it crossed the Pacific
Ocean late last year.
New
data indicate that substantial areas throughout westernmost Canada were ice free prior to 12.5 ka and some as early as 14.0 ka, with implications
for climate dynamics and the timing of meltwater discharge to the Pacific and Arctic
oceans.