Up in the northern and northeastern Pacific, the cold waters of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have returned after waffling a bit. Note that the PDO also means hotter waters in the eastern-northeastern Pacific.
Along the northern eastern coast of North American, we can see a lot of cold water. This has been going on all year as Greenland's melt water pours out of its melting ice sheet. I wish I had salinity data for those waters. If anyone can point me to a site that published such data, that would be great.
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Hoi Tenney, I am sure you are aware of the Argo data service. thats where I´d look. there are numerous data centers and I dont know which is best for you. a general Argo intro page seems to be this here, http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/index.html
and via the french center comes what you want:
http://www.coriolis.eu.org/english/map_of_the_day.htm
salinity as of 18/november.
groeten
Drat! I wish this blog had a preview comment function.
Hi Enno,
Thanks so much for the link! I will have a look at it as soon as I get a break from this HAD-CRU purloined e-mails broohaha, which I have been following closely.
Also, there is a nice layperson's article about the changing chemistry of the waters in the Arctic Sea due to upwelling caused by stronger storms passing over open waters that used to be covered with ice.
Here is the abstract:
http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2009/11/m-yamamoto-kawai-et-al-science-326.html
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