The winter of 2013/2014- What happened to Climate Change? Part 2 Images from the following presentation: The winter of 2013/2014- What happened to Climate Change? Part 2 Daria Kluver, Ph.D. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Central Michigan University August 13th, 2014 Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association Conference
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/clim/sst.shtml
From NOAA NCDC – 4th largest October Eurasian snowcover extent on record http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/extent/snow-cover/eurasia/7
From the Rutgers snow lab http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
Sea ice and the polar vortex http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/extent/sea-ice/N/7
Image from NOAA.gov Image: NOAA.gov
Stratospheric warming event weakening
Image: the Washington Post
http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/images/89 Image: satellite observed surface temperatures in January 2014, from NASA
http://www. esrl. noaa. gov/psd/data/gridded/data. ncep. reanalysis http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/2
What went on outside of Michigan? NCDC State of the climate- California had its warmest winter on record (4.4F above 20th century average) Arizona 4th warmest http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/maps.php?year=2014&month=2&ts=3&imgs[]=statewidetavgrank&submitted=true#maps
15th warmest in Australia 2nd warmest in Austria (247 year period of record) Germany’s 4th warmest Switzerland 3rd warmest Netherlands 2nd warmest since 1706 Denmark 5th warmest Alaska had 8th warmest winter on record http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/global-maps.php?imgs%5B%5D=map-blended-mntp&year=2014&month=14
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global