No. Il 2009 sarà l'anno dell'astronomia, non del clima.
Come dire che un pesce ha bisogno di una bicicletta...![]()
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Ottime notizie
Occhio: nei prossimi gg a S. Francisco si terrà il consueto meeting annuo dell'AGU.
Julienne Stroeve del NSIDC raggiungerà un panel di altri esperti per parlare dei cambiamenti dell'Artico.
"Stroeve will discuss the emergence and implications of stronger warming in the Arctic compared to the rest of the globe, a process tied to the rapid decline of summer Arctic sea ice".
Appena ne saprò qualcosa, posterò (purtroppo Frisco è un po' lontanuccio....).
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incredibile...
http://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale/meteo_articolo-8528.htm
Inverno 2016?" Che l' HP si ammali di PRIAPISMO !!"
Cassano M: PET
“Mai discutere con un cretino..dopo 5 min non si capisce + chi sia tra i due”
Insomma....speravo in un recupero migliore in queste ultime 2 settimane. E' stata una mini martellata sui denti riaprire questo 3d dimenticato
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Ok, ecco l'abstract di un interessante intervento di Stroeve, Serreze e altri del NSIDC a proposito dell'amplificazione artica: un fenomeno - è bene ribadirlo - assolutamente nuovo nel panorama dei rilevamenti artici in epoca satellitare, con effetti sulle condizioni dell'Artico unici nel contesto dell'intero XX secolo.
L'ultima parte grassettata, fra l'altro, fa indirettamente riferimento al fatto che questo fenomeno dell'amplificazione artica fu già pienamente previsto dai GCM implementati già 35 anni fa al GFDL da Suki Manabe e Richard Wetherald.
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AN: C41B-0502
TI: Emerging Arctic Amplification as Seen in the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
AU: * Stroeve, J C, Serreze, M C, Barrett, A C, Kindig, D N, Holland, M M
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado (CU), UCB 449, Boulder, CO 80309-0449, United States
Arctic amplification, a near universal feature of climate model simulations, refers to the idea that rises in surface air temperature (SAT) in response to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations will be larger in the Arctic compared to the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. Model-projected Arctic amplification is focused over the Arctic Ocean. As the climate warms, the summer melt season lengthens and intensifies, leading to less sea ice at summer's end. Summertime absorption of solar energy in expanding open water areas increases the sensible heat content of the ocean. Ice formation in autumn and winter, important for insulating the warm ocean from the cooling atmosphere is delayed. This promotes enhanced upward heat fluxes, seen as strong warming at the surface and in the lower troposphere. Arctic amplification is not prominent in summer itself, when energy is used to melt remaining sea ice and increase the sensible heat content of the upper ocean, limiting changes in surface and lower troposphere temperatures. Data from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis show that starting in the mid 1990s and relative to the 1979-2007 time period, Arctic Ocean SAT anomalies turned positive in autumn and have subsequently grown. Consistent with an anomalous surface heating source, development of the autumn warming pattern aligns with the observed reduction in September sea ice extent, and increases from the lower troposphere to the surface. This recent autumn warming is stronger in the Arctic than in lower latitudes. There is no enhanced surface warming in summer. These findings are consistent with the emergence of model-projected Arctic amplification associated with declining sea ice.
An attempt is made to estimate the temperature changes resulting from doubling the present CO2 concentration by the use of a simplified three-dimensional general circulation model. (...) It is shown that the CO2 increase raises the temperature of the model troposphere, whereas it lowers that of the model stratosphere. The tropospheric warming is somewhat larger than that expected from a radiative-convective equililbrium model. In particular, the increase of surface temperature in higher latitudes is magnified due to the recession of the snow boundary and the thermal stability of the lower troposphere which limits convective heating to the lowest layer. It is also shown that the doubling of carbon dioxide significantly increases the intensity of the hydrologic cycle of the model.
Posterò anche un paio di altri interessanti interventi dall'AGU 2008.
Stay tuned.........
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Auguri Andrea!!
Eccoci ad un secondo interessante intervento, stavolta si parla dei cambiamenti a cui soggiace l'albedo in dipendenza della sea ice cover artica. Abstarct dell'intervento di Perovich ancora con Stroeve e molti altri.
Insomma: non ottime nuove (usando un esteso eufemismo...) in vista della prossima stagione estiva, a meno che - almeno per il prossimo anno - l'inizio della fusione sia ritardato (cosa che cmq io già oggi temo difficile)...
16:15h
AN: C44A-02 INVITED
TI: Albedo changes of the Arctic sea ice cover
* Perovich, D K, Light, B, Jones, K F, Eicken, H, Runciman, K , Nghiem, S V, Stroeve, J , Markus, T
The summer extent of the Arctic sea ice cover has decreased in recent decades and there have been alterations in the timing and duration of the summer melt season. This has resulted in changes in the evolution of albedo of the Arctic sea ice cover, and consequently in the partitioning of solar energy. These changes are examined on a pan-Arctic scale on a 25 x 25 km Equal Area Scalable Earth Grid for the years 1979 – 2007. Daily values of incident solar irradiance are obtained from ERA-40 reanalysis products and ice concentrations are determined from passive microwave satellite data. The albedo of the ice is modeled by a five-phase process that includes dry snow, melting snow, melt pond formation, melt pond evolution, and freezeup. The timing of these phases is governed by the onset dates of summer melt and fall freezeup, which are determined from satellite observations. Results indicate a general trend of increasing solar heat input to the Arctic ice-ocean system due to reductions in ice concentration and longer melt seasons. This trend may accelerate the loss of sea ice through the ice-albedo feedback. The evolution of albedo, and hence the total solar heating of the ocean, is more sensitive to the date of melt onset than the date of fall freezeup.
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Bello. Europa un po' piangente dal comparto nevoso... comunque sia non mi stupisce l'estensione: a far freddo fa freddo e continuerà a farlo anche in futuro. Ma se lo scioglimento estivo assottiglia i ghiacci perenni, non c'è estensione che tenga, visto che sono comunque ghiacci stagionali. Vediamo che succede st'estate...
-12,8 °C a Barrow. Caldazza![]()
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