tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post367648560165797127..comments2023-06-21T00:39:34.443-07:00Comments on Dosbat: The Beaufort Sea Ice Lead of February 2013Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16843133350978717556noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post-27640927420695364492013-02-26T11:40:34.188-08:002013-02-26T11:40:34.188-08:00Thanks Steve.Thanks Steve.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843133350978717556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post-5150013569193175792013-02-25T22:54:52.641-08:002013-02-25T22:54:52.641-08:00Chris, for any future such U.S. data location/stat...Chris, for any future such U.S. data location/status issues, you can save yourself time by emailing Bob Grumbine (bobg@radix.net, although he may prefer his easily searchable work email for these purposes), a sea ice expert who conveniently maintains some of the relevant data himself.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post-21636719931114610522013-02-25T09:32:07.157-08:002013-02-25T09:32:07.157-08:00Daddybfree,
I often think that the whole AGW issu...Daddybfree,<br /><br />I often think that the whole AGW issue only makes sense when viewed through the type of humour Adams expressed so well in Hitchhiker's Guide. Which is probably why that quoted passage came to mind immediately when I had such trouble finding the data.<br /><br />Neven,<br /><br />I often don't bother during winter. Issues like the winter area maximum aren't of much interest to me because they don't tell us much about conditions inside the Arctic Ocean, which are key to the minimum. Volume is of course different.<br /><br />The ice that forms in the cracks won't have time to seriously thicken. Whether it will play any prominent role in the coming melt season, I don't know. <br /><br />I suspect that melt season response to the overall poor state of the pack will dwarf any contribution from the current leads/cracks fissures, whatever people want to call them.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843133350978717556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post-82806917471400690662013-02-24T13:18:05.720-08:002013-02-24T13:18:05.720-08:00Yes, thanks for thoroughly looking into this, Chri...Yes, thanks for thoroughly looking into this, Chris. I know how difficult it is to make sense of these occurrences during winter (which I often don't even bother), so hat off to you.<br /><br />Given the cold over that part of the Arctic, do you think this will make that part of the ice pack stronger? Or will the thin ice in those cracks melt out earlier and thus attack the pack from the inside out?Nevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15413215743703093876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367053740188758246.post-245704301546438632013-02-24T11:45:31.005-08:002013-02-24T11:45:31.005-08:00Great post; Douglas Adams had such a terrific way ...Great post; Douglas Adams had such a terrific way of writing about frustrating situations with humor. One of my other favorites was "Last Chance to See," in which he wrote about human folly regarding the animal world; I wonder what he would have had to say about the Arctic. That being said, I agree that this lead situation appears to be exceptional, and thank you for your research that bolsters that opinion.daddybfreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392048213332386108noreply@blogger.com