March 9, 2007

1323 gmt

Northern Hemisphere Satellite

I don't really expect to see the same drastic heat mass on the North American satellite except where the Greenland Ice Sheet is involved. The Greenland Ice is at least 2 meters in thickness but has lost considerable mass in the past decade. But, still today it is at least 2 kilometers or about 1.2/1.3 miles in elevation sea level. The current heat in this satellite compared to the one below is centering more or less around the ice structures of the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland as it migrates from the Equator. In examining the same satellite picture of March 5, 2007 in comparison when I first noted the heat intrusion of Antarctica, the Greenland Ice had a dense heat mass over it. It dissipated somewhat but then that is to be expected as the ice melts and give relief to the hotter air mass. But, that dissipation from Monday is beginning to return. Different from Antarctica I believe Greenland may not be getting it's heat mass from the upper troposphere but from the vortices of the North Atlantic. An offshore source rather than tropospheric source.

The satellite views of Antarctica today could easily be noted to be a combination of both offshore and tropospheric. The heat density over the Blue Ice is not strickly offshore sources, it is definately, in my opinion from altitudes above the top of the ice continent.