Antarctic Sea Ice Index (part 4)

I explore the relationship between sea ice extent, my newly-minted grand continental anomaly, sea surface temperature, NSST v6.0 ocean/land anomalies & atmospheric CO2

This is where I pull together the BIG SIX anomaly series. I fancy starting with something simple to understand like a correlation matrix and follow through with exotic cross-correlation function (CCF) plots to see how pairs of series bounce off each other over time. With six time series there are a total of 15 paired CCF plots to be crayoned but since this is all about sea ice I’m going to whittle that down to just five. The time period will be 1979 – 2018 (n=40), which should be plenty to detect significant correlations.

To understand how the ‘Dee’ variables have been derived you’ll need to look back through my publication archive landing here for sea surface temperature and here for land surface temperature. Right then, here’s that first spanner, being an all-in-the-pot correlation matrix – alarmists had better look away now: