Huge heat transfers are back over Antarctica again.

September 26, 2007
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African-Europe Satellite

It is easy to tell the direct rays of the sun are concentrated below the Equator in a super hot planet. The heat index is high and it takes only the mire presence of sunlight to ignite turbulence and not just air movement. Antarctica isn't getting a break anymore.




September 26, 2007


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Western Hemisphere





There is obviously loss of tropospheric water vapor due to the high heats under the dense carbon dioxide layer. There are also many low pressure systems coming off Africa yet. Africa is hot at the Equator right now where the direct rays from the sun are concentrated.




September 26, 2007
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Global Pacific Satellite

The water vapor supporting the cloud density at the equator becomes absent as one approaches the USA due to higher heat in the troposphere and the drying out of the air masses in proximity of this much hotter troposphere.


September 26, 2007
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West Pacific Satellite

In weeks before the Northern Hemisphere's Autumnal Equinox, the heat at the Equator was primarily sequestered north of 0 Latitude. However, with only three days into the change of Sol's sunlight below the Equator there are huge shifts in heat transfer. This is highly unusual and noted to be extreme in it's highly reactive change in a relationship that is 'instantaneously' ignited by the solar radiation. This is a very hot troposphere. There is no room in the physics of Earth now for gradual changes in tropospheric seasonal differences. Just as nearly immediately the change over northern latitudes of the USA resulted in winter conditions, the changes in the southern hemisphere have resulted in a very hot summer. The lassitude in temperature shifts resulting in Spring and Autumn is diminishing.


September 25, 2007
0900 AM
Antarctica Surface Winds

In the 24 hour loop linked at the title of this entry, it is noted there is significant turbulence due to the arrival of heat and the rising and sinking air masses that resulted.

September 25, 2007
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The Jet Stream satellite reflects heat intrusion at higher elevations as noted also below. The 'arriving' air is noted as arrows pointing onshore while the existing jet stream/vortex attempts to achieve inertia.




September 25, 2007


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South Pole Satellite

NASA FINDS GREENLAND SNOW MELTING HIT RECORD HIGH IN HIGH PLACES

September 25, 2007

A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average. In fact, the amount of snow that has melted this year over Greenland could cover the surface size of the U.S. more than twice.

Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, cooperatively managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, used satellite data to compare average snow melting from 1988-2006 with what has taken place this summer. He found that in high altitude areas over 1.2 miles above sea level, the melting index -- an indicator of where melting is occurring and for how long - was significantly higher than average. Melting over those areas occurred 25-30 days longer this year than the observed average in the previous 19 years.

"When snow melts at those high altitudes and then refreezes, it can absorb up to four times more energy than fresh, unthawed snow," said Tedesco. "This can affect Earth's energy budget by changing how much radiation from the sun is absorbed by the Earth versus that reflected back into the atmosphere. Refrozen snow can also alter the snow density, thickness and snow-water content." Tedesco's findings were published Sept. 25 in the American Geophysical Union's Eos newspaper.

Researchers determine the melting index by multiplying how long melting took place by the area where the increased melting took place. According to Tedesco, melting in April and May of this year in high-altitude areas was very low, but in June melting jumped unexpectedly and led to the record melting index for the year.

This record melting index in those areas came as a bit of a surprise, showing us, once again, the extreme variability and complexity of these processes," said Tedesco. His expertise in documenting melting trends produced other recent studies on increased snow melting over Greenland and the Antarctic.

The data collected by the Special Sensor Microwave Imagers on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites provided Tedesco with insight into how much of an electromagnetic signal was naturally emitted by snow and ice in areas beneath the satellite overpass. The microwave instruments can detect melting above and below the snow surface. The data were processed at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., in just 24 hours after the satellite overpass, enabling Tedesco to quickly spot changes that could signal a melting trend or new record.

Tedesco's work also confirmed that the melting index this year in lower altitude areas of Greenland, though not record breaking, was higher than average by 30 percent, placing 2007 in fifth place for the highest melting index after 2005, 2002, 1998 and 2004, in that order."

Increases in the overall melting trend over Greenland have an impact that stretches beyond its icy shores," said Tedesco. "Aside from contributing to direct sea level rise, melting especially along the coast can speed up glaciers since the meltwater acts like a lubricant between the frozen surface and the bedrock deep below. The faster glaciers flow, the more water enters the ocean and potentially impacts sea level rise." Tedesco, along with U.S. and European colleagues, plans to combine satellite data with related climate model results. He plans to visit Greenland in 2008 to compare his findings from space-borne data with those obtained by ground-based sensors, all with an eye to gathering further clues of what is

For more information, visit:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ssmi.html

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/snowmelt_greenland.html##Contact:Lynn

Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center

301-286-2806

lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov

This text is derived from: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/amazon_green.html

The world got used to the idea of losing Antarctica ice. That was a mistake. The peninsula is melting again. Click for 24 hour loop, 12 A & 6 absent

The collapse of Larsen B Ice Shelf (click here).
This is an entire ice structure which is tens of thousands of years old if not hundreds of thousands of years old. If the climate of Earth were to return to benevolence today, the people alive now would never witness it's return. That isn't something to respect? Reflect about to realize the level of planetary demise humans have caused? What will be enough? And when? When it's far, far too late?



The melt of the ice shelf to Antarctica has never abated for over two decades (click here for link). That never impressed anyone ENOUGH? It impressed Al Gore a long time ago. There is a very lopsided way of looking at economics in the USA. There is no room for 'the truth' or 'decency.' Because of the lack of intelligence in the economic sector of the USA there needs to be drastically different focus and management with the next administration. This is simply an outrage.


September 25, 2007
9:00 PM
Antarctica

The warmest reporting station is :


Base Orcadas, Antarctica

Elevation :: 20 ft / 6 m

Temperature :: 35 °F / 2 °C

Conditions :: Light Snow

Humidity :: 83%

Dew Point :: 32 °F / 0 °C

Wind :: 29 mph / 46 km/h from the NW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.74 in / 973 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 1.0 miles / 2.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 492 ft / 150 m
Scattered Clouds 1476 ft / 450 m
(Above Ground Level)

Aviation
Flight Rule :: LIFR ()

Wind Speed :: 29 mph / 46 km/h /

Wind Dir :: 320° (NW)

Ceiling :: 500 ft / 150 m


The coldest reporting stations are:


Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -84 °F / -64 °C

Conditions :: Snow

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h from the ENE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 4.0 miles / 6.0 kilometers

Clouds:
Few 3543 ft / 1080 m
Scattered Clouds 8858 ft / 2700 m
(Above Ground Level)

Aviation:

Flight Rule :: MVFR ()

Wind Speed :: 9 mph / 15 km/h /

Wind Dir :: 60° (ENE)

Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m


Vostok, Antarctica

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

Temperature :: -82 °F / -63 °C

Humidity :: 42%

Dew Point :: -88 °F / -66 °C

Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h from the WNW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()

Wind Speed :: 5 mph / 7 km/h /

Wind Dir: :: 290° (WNW)

Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m

The weather at Scott Base, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base, Antarctica
September 26, 2007
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There are still very long shadows, but, the sun is much stronger.


Scott Base, Antarctica
September 26, 2007
1:15 PM

Mr. Ahmadinejad Speaks

Impeach Sheldon Silver !


There is nothing else to be said. Columbia University did an impeccable job at putting together the speaking engagement of the Iranian President. It was important. The protests were important. Both speak very, very loudly to the strength of the American Democracy when it comes to citizens standing up for their Constitution.

It is in the worst taste possible for a New York legislator to come out publically and criticize an long standing American University. If Mr. Silver wanted to take a stand he should have done so over the words the Iranian President spoke and not the fact he was allowed to speak them. Prohibiting freedom of choice of students and faculty is the equivalent of book burning.

Cherry picking Iraq's death statistics to enhance Petraeus' Pro-Surge Assessment

How do you classify this one General Petraeus? War dead or simply a good disposal method through incineration?

Evidently, the 'body count' can be watered down depending on whether, under an artificial classificiation system, someone was killed as a 'street crime' vs a war statistic.

This is unbelievable. Talk about corruption. I am wondering, does a Sunni shot in the head or a Baathist or a Kurd or a Shi'ite count differently than say a Pro-Surge Iraqi Police or a Non-Pro-Surge Iraqi Police? Now, in Iraq, one death is less important than another. Let's open up gas chambers and call it a day, huh?

...The soldiers have a manual telling them what to look for. Signs of torture or a single shot to the head, corpses left in a "known body dump" -- as the body of the Sunni man found on Sept. 3 was -- spell sectarian violence, said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dan Macomber, the team leader. Macomber, who has been at his job in Baghdad since February, rarely has to look it up anymore....

What I find most outrageous about all this is that General Petraeus has the audacity to 'classify' deaths at all. He touts there is less sectarian violence while stacking up the statics as a street crime.

Does he ever stop to realize this classification is unimportant and can be manipulated by those that are doing the killing? Petraeus and Bush state one cannot set a date for withdrawal otherwise it will embolden the enemy and entrench a poor outcome for post USA troops withdrawal.

YET.

These same two men will allow a 'classification' system to be manipulated by 'the street' in the way bodies are presented to morgues and counted to justify the Petraeus recommendations. That is amazing. What makes these two men believe, so called insurgents, that undermine every defensive measure of the USA military, capable of inventing IEDs are any less capable of manipulating the way bodies are presented to 'statistians?'

This is about the most stupid manipulation of a battlefield I have ever seen. I guess it justifies the 'Iraq budget process' in assigning more police vs more Iraq military, which no one will come forward to enlist anyway.

When is IRAQ going to have a MILITARY SERVICE DRAFT?