Using a supplemented dataset incorporating NSIDC’s Sea Ice Index (SII) to explore the relationship with sea ice extent, sea surface and land surface temperate anomalies
Apart from statistic, there is also physics. Could it be simply the effect of different heat capacity. Water heats and cools slower than land, and it is the reason for different time lag? The energy source, the Sun, is external to both.
Absolutely so, but it gets even more complicated in that ocean>land transfers can take 30 years, plus there is evidence of a 60-year oceanic energy cycle. The there's deep thermal dynamics of which we know very little plus other seas impacting on the Arctic seas. It's as complex as you fancy!
My brain hurts! Maths always did this to me. However, fascinating that the solar cycle may well be important in the fluctuations in sea and land temperatures; it's not surprising when you think about it. I'm pretty sure that global temperatures are much more influenced by solar activity than by piffling amounts of trace gases. I look forward to the next installment when I hope you will include the last of the four variables promised above (mean annual CO2 levels).
Apart from statistic, there is also physics. Could it be simply the effect of different heat capacity. Water heats and cools slower than land, and it is the reason for different time lag? The energy source, the Sun, is external to both.
Absolutely so, but it gets even more complicated in that ocean>land transfers can take 30 years, plus there is evidence of a 60-year oceanic energy cycle. The there's deep thermal dynamics of which we know very little plus other seas impacting on the Arctic seas. It's as complex as you fancy!
My brain hurts! Maths always did this to me. However, fascinating that the solar cycle may well be important in the fluctuations in sea and land temperatures; it's not surprising when you think about it. I'm pretty sure that global temperatures are much more influenced by solar activity than by piffling amounts of trace gases. I look forward to the next installment when I hope you will include the last of the four variables promised above (mean annual CO2 levels).
Yep, CO2 is coming up next and we shall see just how confusing it can be in a world with positive feedback!