Tag Archives: climate

Monthly HadCrut4 variation

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Clive Best

I have been investigating  variations in the monthly Hadcrut 4.3 temperatures anomalies. Here is  an animation of all the data starting from 1990 up until Oct 2015. Apart from occasional El Ninos most activity takes place in the two northern continents – America and … Continue reading →

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Marotzke & Forster Revisited

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Clive Best

Marotzke & Forster(2015) found that 60 year trends in global surface temperatures are dominated by underlying climate physics. However, the  data show that climate models overestimate such 60 year decadel trends after 1940. The recent paper in Nature by Jochem Marotzke & … Continue reading →

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Tides and Storms

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Clive Best

Energy flows from the tropics to the poles. The tropics absorb most of the sun’s radiation and drives heat flow to polar regions where radiative cooling dominates. In winter the Hadley cell moves heat to ~30N via huge convective currents … Continue reading →

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