Author Archives: Turbulent Eddie

I looked at the GHCN Precipitation data. PRCP stations are not as prevalent, nor as old as the temperature stations so shorter time frame, since 1930, includes these stations:

After examining the record of CONUS stations in the GHCN TMAX record, it is quite reasonable to ask ‘What about the global record?’ I looked the global GHCN data ( excluding the US stations, which dominate the record, especially early … Continue reading →

As part of his 2016 Congressional testimony, John Christy presented this chart:

Introduction Often in the context of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), comparisons are made to the changes of CO2 during the glacial cycles. Running the CRM models as in the last post, I compared runs for the Last Glacial Maximum and … Continue reading →

Synopsis Using the Column Radiation Model, GFS analysis data for 2010, CERES derived surface albedo, and Last Glaical Maximum (LGM) ice and land mask estimates, it is possible to compare resulting net radiance for a number of scenarios ( with … Continue reading →

Global Warming Appears Likely As countless papers have demonstrated, the increased opacity from increased carbon dioxide tends to impose a surplus of radiative energy which, if not reversed by strong negative feedback, would tend to accumulate, raising temperatures until radiative … Continue reading →

With 2015 in the books, I updated a couple of plots I monitor of MSU data and RAOB ( RATPAC ) data. There’s been some discussion about the Hot Spot missing because of the cooling trend in the Eastern Pacific, … Continue reading →

A frustrating aspect of observing climate change is the lack of uniformity within the major global data sets. Variations of instrumentation, infrastructure, methods of observation, automation, time of observation, standards,  effects of human habitation and numerous other discrepancies pollute data … Continue reading →

Continuing with runs of CRM, I recently set up a comparison of water vapor. In this comparison are runs of increased water vapor for the entire troposphere and then for just the lowest two levels. For these runs, dewpoint depression … Continue reading →