As there are numerous techniques for determining
sea level pressures from atmospheric observations, all having limitations, we also compared the SLP fields generated in the above way for general consistency with those generated using an independent method.
The observations assimilated in ERA - 20C include surface pressures and mean
sea level pressures from ISPDv3.2.6 and ICOADSv2.5.1, and surface marine winds from ICOADSv2.5.1.
The web page you mention http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/ISPD/v2.0/ is showing only locations of the station component of the ISPDv2: these station pressure or
sea level pressure from stations were available for assimilation.
Not exact matches
Instead of weightlessness, the aquanaut would have to endure, among other things, artificial atmospheres with gaseous mixtures different
from what we breathe on land, maintained at significantly higher
pressures than those at
sea level to match the water
pressure at depth.
There's often intense local
pressure to rebuild communities as they were, he said, even if the future risk
from sea -
level rise or other climate risks suggests it's not the most prudent path.
When the researchers placed the material inside a gas chamber and cranked up the air
pressure from one bar (about the atmospheric
pressure at
sea level) to five bars, the cube's volume increased by about 3 percent.
The analysis of high - frequency surface air temperature, mean
sea -
level pressure, wind speed and direction and cloud - cover data
from the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015
from the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland, published today (Monday 22 August 2016), sheds new light on the phenomenon.
Looking at two different measures of wind intensity (the East - West difference in
sea level pressure and the depth of the thermocline) over the time periods involved, they conclude that trade winds were diminishing over the course of 1950 to 1990, but then picked up
from 1990 to 2010.
The
sea level time series is rich in physical phenomena such as tides (caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun), meteorological signals (high and low
pressure), and signals
from climate change.
The higher
sea level near the western ocean boundary creates a west - east
pressure difference in the ocean, that results in the equatorial undercurrent flowing
from west to east below the surface.
They wrote that their comparisons of
sea -
level pressures,
sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «
from monthly to century time scales.»
This is the result of adiabatic warming, where air is compressed
from low
pressure (at the top of a mountain) to high
pressure (at
sea level).
I live in a flat area, about 20 miles
from English coast - close to
sea level atmospheric
pressures.
From the fear of almost missing your flight, from the intra-cabin air pressure to food and the general discomfort of being 39,000 feet above sea le
From the fear of almost missing your flight,
from the intra-cabin air pressure to food and the general discomfort of being 39,000 feet above sea le
from the intra-cabin air
pressure to food and the general discomfort of being 39,000 feet above
sea level.
Unlike the
sea level pressure field
from the last six years with the Arctic Dipole (AD), which has low
pressure on the Siberian side of the Arctic and higher
pressure on the North American side, May 2013 had a low
pressure over the central Arctic.
I'm using
sea level pressure fields
from ERA - interim reanalysis and
from the 20th century reanalysis.
Radiation
from the atmosphere's greenhouse gases is narrow - band, even at
sea level but increasingly so at higher altitudes as the effect of
pressure - broadening decreases.
Given the increased
levels of certainty regarding human - induced global warming (
from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on
sea -
level rise and data on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more
pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Obviously you are not aware that the decadal variability of ENSO is not in synch with the PDO: The graph is
from this post: http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/yet-even-more-discussions-about-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation-pdo/ The reasons for the differences are of course due to the influence of
sea level pressure on the PDO.
Sea level pressure changes in the two solstice seasons from a GCM simulation with increased sea surface temperature gradient minus a simulation with a decreased gradient in the Atlantic (top row), in the Pacific (middle row), and increased gradient in the Atlantic along with a decreased gradient in the Pacific minus the reverse (bottom ro
Sea level pressure changes in the two solstice seasons
from a GCM simulation with increased
sea surface temperature gradient minus a simulation with a decreased gradient in the Atlantic (top row), in the Pacific (middle row), and increased gradient in the Atlantic along with a decreased gradient in the Pacific minus the reverse (bottom ro
sea surface temperature gradient minus a simulation with a decreased gradient in the Atlantic (top row), in the Pacific (middle row), and increased gradient in the Atlantic along with a decreased gradient in the Pacific minus the reverse (bottom row).
They wrote that their comparisons of
sea -
level pressures,
sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «
from monthly to century time scales.»
The climate shift of 1978 manifests as a strong lift in 200hPa temperature globally with the most extreme change at about 30 ° of latitude in both hemispheres, a pronounced fall in
sea level pressure in the south East Pacific, a jump in
sea surface temperature in the tropics, the transition between solar cycle 20 and 21 and a hike in the aa index of geomagnetic activity that has slowly sunk along with 200hpa temperature
from that time forward.
With regard to summer meteorological forcing, 2007 was dominated by a strong dipole pattern in
sea level pressure (SLP), with high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and winds blowing from the Bering Strait across the North Pole, promoting both advection of warm air and compaction of the ice pa
sea level pressure (SLP), with high
pressure over the Beaufort
Sea and winds blowing from the Bering Strait across the North Pole, promoting both advection of warm air and compaction of the ice pa
Sea and winds blowing
from the Bering Strait across the North Pole, promoting both advection of warm air and compaction of the ice pack.
The E-OBS holds gridded data for daily values of the precipitation amount, the daily mean -
sea -
level pressure and the daily maximum, mean and minimum temperatures
from January 1950 onward.
I like plotting the east - west (zonal) component like this, with a gray scale — it gives one the feeling of looking at a 3d contour map of
sea -
level pressure, lighted
from the south in the Southern Hemisphere and
from the north in the Northern Hemisphere (because the east - west component of the winds is closely related to the north - south gradient of the
pressure).
While derived
from sea surface temperature data, the PDO index is well correlated with many records of North Pacific and Pacific Northwest climate and ecology, including
sea level pressure, winter land — surface temperature and precipitation, and stream flow.
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A persistent ridge of higher than normal
sea level pressure was present over the Gulf of Alaska
from October 2013 into February 2014.
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
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
pressure region
from north of the Bering Strait across northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term average (1981 - 2010).
Anyway, one of the things on my todo list is to look into where the
pressures used to adjust
sea level data come
from.
The station component is a blend of many national and international collections, with the largest contributor being surface and
sea level pressure observations
from the International Surface Database (ISD, Lott et al., 2008).
A balance develops between the Coriolis force and the force arising
from the horizontal water
pressure gradient such that surface currents flow parallel to the contours of elevation of
sea level.
(Top) Time series of the NPI (
sea level pressure during December through March averaged over the North Pacific, 30 ° N to 65 ° N, 160 ° E to 140 ° W)
from 1900 to 2005 expressed as normalised departures
from the long - term mean (each tick mark on the ordinate represents two standard deviations, or 5.5 hPa).
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.
That method, which we use in the NASA / GISS GCM, extrapolates the surface
pressures to
sea level based on elevation and the atmospheric lapse rates calculated
from surface air temperatures.
In July, the Arctic Dipole Anomaly (DA) pattern that was dominant in June (which promotes clear skies, warm air temperatures, and winds that push ice away
from coastal areas and encourages melt) was replaced by low
sea level pressure (SLP) over the Arctic Ocean, leading to ice divergence (ice extent «spreading out») and cooler temperatures.
This is an increase of 1 million square kilometers
from the July Outlook, reflecting the persistence of low
sea level pressure (SLP) over the central Arctic that resulted in ice divergence and a more fractured ice cover.
We use the 9 climate variables of surface air temperature (SAT),
sea level pressure (SLP), precipitation (rain), the top of atmosphere (TOA) shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) full - sky radiation, clear - sky radiation (CLR, radiative flux where clouds do not exists), and cloud radiative forcing (CRF, radiative effect by clouds diagnosed
from the difference between full - sky and clear - sky radiation, Cess et al. 1990).
This plot shows Arctic
sea level pressure difference
from average for September 2016.
Correlations with the SOI, based on normalised Tahiti minus Darwin
sea level pressures, for annual (May to April) means for
sea level pressure (top left) and surface temperature (top right) for 1958 to 2004, and GPCP precipitation for 1979 to 2003 (bottom left), updated
from Trenberth and Caron (2000).