subgeo: once the season is historic some editorial post-production could create a more usable resource
Good ideas there, what WAS the take-home anyway for the storm or seasonal? It tends to get buried in press of later events.
With 2006 posts so far, editing the whole season would be challenging so it would be better to practice on a storm with fairly narrow bounds (though this one seems sort of run-on). Even then, producing our own little Arctic Report Card is quite a task.
It is feasible to grab everything, delete forum template prose and people quoting priors and recompile as a flatfile database which would allow flagging comment areas to group related ones by sort. However it might be better to first mirror the forum and do a lot of initial editing, deleting and combining using restricted admin privileges.
An easy way to do that is to convert all the posted by's to a single virtual persona at the time of mirroring with the editing team all allowed a second registration. Staying within the forum is simpler than say a google docs collaborative environment and reformatting for forum return.
On the figures, forecasts need to be replaced by reanalysis. Time series mostly would need lengthening. For example, above VIIRS is current but AMSR2 lags by a day and SMOS by two days. Hycom provides a rolling 365-day easily restricted to a given date range, orientation, regional crop, and resize. On the Piomas forum, wipneus maintains updating images and data on the very first post. The 'storm template' series above are similar but spread out; they can be updated in situ and then called in later.
Images that are still 'keepers' can be repurposed at the meta-forum with
tag reinsertion. That provides in effect cross-posting of images. It apparently defeats the four attachment limit though at some point, like text length in a post, it may hit a forum wall.
Neven of course is the go-to guy for pulling things together concisely and accurately with good graphics. For example, the ASIB is newly updated today with J Francis and the new Arctic feedback.
http://neven1.typepad.comNote on that stunning image of temperatures greater than 20 degrees F above normal on the Atlantic side of the Arctic ocean that Svalbard has an anomaly of +13C where the contours show it as around +10C. The reanalysis may be underestimating the intensity of the warm anomaly.
The attached looks at these contours more closely on this beautiful map. The center of the Chukchi is between 11-12ºC warmer than the ERA40 1958-2002 mean (used in nearby figure); Svalbard and Franz Josef are two notches warmer so between 13-14ºC.
Zack's image has a fuzzed palette that does not quite correspond to map colors; it's perhaps better to label a few contours with text. This map applies to 107 days of reanalysis data between 01 Oct 16 to 15 Jan 2017.
The use of a long-term climate mean has the effect of dramatizing the anomaly. Relative to say 2010-2015, the numbers would presumably be less dramatic (see above 80+N similarities to last year). Either way, the 2 m air has been way too warm so far this refreeze season.