Very interesting Rick. Thank You ! Would anyone at Fairbanks know what happened to the spreadsheet we maintained at the Barrow Office of SST's we measured ? I'm sure it went to someone at Fairbanks WFO, not sure who. Years of daily readings when nearshore waters were not ice covered. All the time & effort in obtaining that data, probably lost forever. What a shame. The NWS doesn't seem to care about much of the work done in Barrow out of the Office there. The work you do puts satellites in the best light, that's for sure. Sometimes, however, I wish satellites never existed, really !
I recall seeing copies of the sheets at the time. Certainly Ted Fathauer saved copies. A lot of paper was throw out from the move of the Fairbanks Forecast Office from the Federal Building to UAF in 1998 and then even more tossed in a conference remodel ~2005. It's possible the Barrow SST observation forms were deposited in the Mather Library in IARC but if not there then very likely lost.
Rick, what do you speculate would be the Arctic SST trend if we ran predictive models with the Eurasian and North American landmasses replaced by open water? Who is warming up faster- 60° N. or 60° S. waters?
Hard to say. We have to enlist the help of paleoclimatologists and paleogeographers. Back when there was but one supercontinent, was there at ice at the poles? Probably not I think. But it's really difficult to calculate ocean and atmospheric heat transport mechanisms that far back..too many priors.
Very interesting Rick. Thank You ! Would anyone at Fairbanks know what happened to the spreadsheet we maintained at the Barrow Office of SST's we measured ? I'm sure it went to someone at Fairbanks WFO, not sure who. Years of daily readings when nearshore waters were not ice covered. All the time & effort in obtaining that data, probably lost forever. What a shame. The NWS doesn't seem to care about much of the work done in Barrow out of the Office there. The work you do puts satellites in the best light, that's for sure. Sometimes, however, I wish satellites never existed, really !
I recall seeing copies of the sheets at the time. Certainly Ted Fathauer saved copies. A lot of paper was throw out from the move of the Fairbanks Forecast Office from the Federal Building to UAF in 1998 and then even more tossed in a conference remodel ~2005. It's possible the Barrow SST observation forms were deposited in the Mather Library in IARC but if not there then very likely lost.
Rick, what do you speculate would be the Arctic SST trend if we ran predictive models with the Eurasian and North American landmasses replaced by open water? Who is warming up faster- 60° N. or 60° S. waters?
I wouldn't even try to speculate on that. Would there be summer sea ice or even winter ice?
Hard to say. We have to enlist the help of paleoclimatologists and paleogeographers. Back when there was but one supercontinent, was there at ice at the poles? Probably not I think. But it's really difficult to calculate ocean and atmospheric heat transport mechanisms that far back..too many priors.