September GISS Temp up by 0.13°C

GISS LOTI went from 0.61°C in August to 0.74°C in September. because of the US shutdown, the report was exceptionally late, and in fact the surface indices were reported in the reverse of the usual order, with HADCRUt first. GISS showed the highest rise; NOAA 0.03°C, HADCRUT 4 and TempLS less than 0.01°C. But the satellite indices showed rises comparable to GISS.


Here is the GISS map for September 2013:



And here, with the same scale and color scheme, is the earlier TempLS map for September:

And here is the WebGL map of actual station temps during the month.

Previous Months

August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
December 2012
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
December 2011
November
October
September
August 2011

More data and plots

New page - climate blog index

I described here an experiment I tried in July (when Google Reader faded). I selected about a dozen popular climate blogs, for which I regularly looked at the RSS files (every two hours). They aren't all blogs that I agree with, but they are ones at which I sometimes comment.

A database of posts and comments has accumulated, and I've done some organising to make that accessible without a huge initial download. So I've scrubbed it up and promoted it to a page, visible upper right.

It's just a table of blog names, thread titles, dates and authors (comments and posts). The dates are linked to the source. You can order by each column, or you can subset by each of those properties (in combination, if you want). You can, for example, put up a linked list of all your own comments on those sites over a time period.

It starts with just the current and previous month. But you can vary the time range (more data =slower). More details are at the page.

TempLS global temp up 0.01°C in September

GHCN now seems to be OK after the shutdown. There was a tiny increase from August (0.49°C) to September (0.504°C). UAH seems to be the only other index reporting to date - it showed a much larger increase.

Here is the spherical harmonics plot of the temperature distribution:



Warm spots in Canada and Australia; cold in Siberia and E Europe..


And here is the map of stations reporting:

Shutdown - TempLS delayed

GHCN has been updating, as has ERSST. But when I look into GHCN, oddly, there are only US data, no ROW. So no TempLS post yet.

FWIW, the data that is there suggests a slight fall in Sept.

The Shutdown and updating

Just a note on how the US government shutdown affects updated data here. Hopefully all will be fixed when it ends.

• NOAA SST data isn't getting through, so the SST movies and WebGL trackball daily plots have no October data.
  
• The NASA and NOAA websites are down, so there probably won't be a monthly index update for the duration. UAH is out and RSS should be OK.
  
• GHCN data is getting through, so TempLS should be OK - may be the only one until HADCRUT comes out. The monthly updates of surface temp should be OK.
  
• JAXA is unaffected.