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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2650 on: November 20, 2018, 09:15:21 AM »
Here are the updated volume and volume-anomaly graphs.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2651 on: November 20, 2018, 09:21:07 AM »
No new Fram export graph, the ice velocity data is missing.

Regional daily volume data updated:
https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/data/PIOMAS-regional.txt.gz

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2652 on: November 20, 2018, 12:13:11 PM »
Still more or less following 2011.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2653 on: November 20, 2018, 11:20:32 PM »
Here is the PIOMAS data for mid-Nov from Wipneus  as tables & graphs in the sane format as I use for JAXA extent postings.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2654 on: December 03, 2018, 02:12:10 AM »
The November coldness seems have had an impact on the ice. Both thickness and volume increased way above previous years.

Full size images + gif +November netcdf at:
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2655 on: December 04, 2018, 08:24:05 AM »
PIOMAS data has been updated, both the "official" volume data and graphs as the gridded thickness data.

Volume on 30th November was 11.453 [1000 km3], which is the sixth lowest value for that day.

As I am still downloading the gridded data, we start with the volume and volume-anomaly graphs.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2656 on: December 04, 2018, 09:14:05 AM »
Here is the animation for November.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2657 on: December 04, 2018, 09:18:18 AM »
The Fram export graph. During the last few days the export has increased noticeable, which I think is visible in the animation above.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2659 on: December 04, 2018, 09:28:34 AM »
Thickness map for the 30rd of November, compared with recent years and their diff's.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2660 on: December 04, 2018, 09:43:19 AM »
The Atlantic front seems way off by several hundreds of thousands of square km. North of Svalbard, at the northern end of Novaya Zemlya towards Franz Josef Land and in the southernmost part of the Kara sea.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2661 on: December 04, 2018, 11:28:43 AM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2662 on: December 04, 2018, 12:15:11 PM »
The Fram export graph. During the last few days the export has increased noticeable, which I think is visible in the animation above.

And here is the Wipneus Fram Strait export graph alongside the Greenland Ice Area (NSIDC 5-day trailing average)
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2663 on: December 04, 2018, 12:16:54 PM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

Well this version from NSIDC certainly has lower accuracy, but is still much closer to the Bremen map than to the PIOMAS map.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2664 on: December 04, 2018, 01:38:14 PM »
Here is the PIOMAS data for End-Nov from Wipneus  as tables & graphs in the sane format as I use for JAXA extent postings. A lot of days with above average volume gain in November.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2665 on: December 04, 2018, 05:25:07 PM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

I agree with Binntho. No gridded cells could explain that difference.

But in fairness, the PIOMAS is a better effort than the AMSR volume chart posted earlier by Tealight.

Look at the two areas circled in black. Parts of Area A in the Laptev were still not fully ice covered in early November and now it is supposed to be nearing 150cm thick ! PIOMAS puts the same area in the 75cm to 1m bin. Which is probably even a little generous.

Meanwhile Area B shows a river of blue going right up the centre of the Arctic Basin. That's less than 50cm thick. Clearly incorrect. 
« Last Edit: December 04, 2018, 05:31:38 PM by Niall Dollard »

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November)
« Reply #2666 on: December 04, 2018, 05:44:14 PM »
Same comment than last month:

Focusing on what has happened…

I started contact with Neven in May or June 2012 and I was shocked with the ASI drop on August, after the Great Arctic Cyclone. I was also impressed by the 2012 PIOMAS Volume graph made by Wipneus. So, when on the first months of 2013 appeared cracks on the ASI, well, several of us were concern of what could happen that year. Finally, 2013 was a good year for the ice and 2014 was even better. It had passed 6 years since 2012 and the collapse has not happened.

Or it has happened?  :o

On extent, the ASI has not even able to break the 2007 record, not to mention the 2012 record. So, there are some people saying that 2012 is an outlier and even 2007 will be difficult to break. But I don’t like extent! Yes, it is important to measure the effect of the Arctic Ocean albedo. But to measure the ASI drop, I am convinced that we should use volume, even if it is harder to measure than extent.

So, what do I see on volume?

First, [September] volume on 2007 has been broken several times. On volume, 2007 is the ninth lowest on record! And even that September 2012 is still the lowest, the difference between 2012 with 2010-2011 and 2016-17 is not that big.

But on the other hand, while 2012 has not been broken, the decadal average show us that we
have a very different Arctic. By example, look at Aug-Oct average on a decadal basis.  The 1990-99 average of 93.6% changed to 68.5% on 2000-09 and to 39.5% on 2010-18.

So, do we need a catastrophe to prove a catastrophe? From my point of view, the catastrophe has already happened. The [Aug-Oct] 39.5% ice that we have on 2010-18, versus the 1979-2000 baseline, is climate change, not just one year, not weather change.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2018, 05:50:18 PM by Juan C. García »
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2667 on: December 04, 2018, 05:55:48 PM »
Herewith a graph of avearge arctic sea ice thickness month by month 19179 to 2018 (PIOMAS volume & NSIDC Monthly Average Extent & Area data)
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November)
« Reply #2668 on: December 04, 2018, 07:30:28 PM »
Neven, please delete if this is not relevant, however I do believe this is relevant!

<Sorry, PIOMAS data has just been updated, not the place to talk about snow; N.>
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2669 on: December 04, 2018, 07:36:00 PM »
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« Reply #2670 on: December 04, 2018, 07:45:44 PM »
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2671 on: December 04, 2018, 08:54:38 PM »
bbr,
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2672 on: December 04, 2018, 10:39:08 PM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

Well this version from NSIDC certainly has lower accuracy, but is still much closer to the Bremen map than to the PIOMAS map.

Unless Wipneus has done some processing to trim the PIOMAS map back to match a 15% extent contour, which I don't think he has, you aren't comparing like contours.

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« Reply #2673 on: December 05, 2018, 12:25:22 AM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

Well this version from NSIDC certainly has lower accuracy, but is still much closer to the Bremen map than to the PIOMAS map.

Unless Wipneus has done some processing to trim the PIOMAS map back to match a 15% extent contour, which I don't think he has, you aren't comparing like contours.

There is also a large lump of ice showing on the Piomas chart just to the west of Cape Farewell.that doesnt really exist. Shows up also on the animations.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2674 on: December 05, 2018, 12:28:06 AM »
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But in fairness, the PIOMAS is a better effort than the AMSR volume chart posted earlier by Tealight.
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« Reply #2675 on: December 05, 2018, 07:05:03 AM »
binntho, I doubt if it explains everything, but for a more valid comparison you need to compare PIOMAS to  NSIDC extent, which has much larger grid cells and lower accuracy.

Well this version from NSIDC certainly has lower accuracy, but is still much closer to the Bremen map than to the PIOMAS map.

Unless Wipneus has done some processing to trim the PIOMAS map back to match a 15% extent contour, which I don't think he has, you aren't comparing like contours.

Well, I've no idea what that means. I guess the whole point of my posting was to point out that the two (now three) maps did not show "like contours" and that the PIOMAS map was showing several hundreds of thousands of km2 that simply arent' there according to the extent maps.

Not that it makes that much difference to the total volume, the "extra" ice is very thin and would perhaps inflate the total by 10 km3. But I'd still like an explanation. Is the area between e.g. Svalbard and the ice-edge 200km away covered in small but thick floes that when averaged out would cover the whole area by say 20 cm of ice, but are at the same time to small to register on the extent maps? Does the same apply to the other "extras"?
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2676 on: December 05, 2018, 07:20:35 AM »
Well, I've no idea what that means. I guess the whole point of my posting was to point out that the two (now three) maps did not show "like contours" and that the PIOMAS map was showing several hundreds of thousands of km2 that simply arent' there according to the extent maps.

Not that it makes that much difference to the total volume, the "extra" ice is very thin and would perhaps inflate the total by 10 km3. But I'd still like an explanation. Is the area between e.g. Svalbard and the ice-edge 200km away covered in small but thick floes that when averaged out would cover the whole area by say 20 cm of ice, but are at the same time to small to register on the extent maps? Does the same apply to the other "extras"?
I'm intrigued as well. I guess only Wipneus is qualified enough to explain this discrepancy. As far as I know PIOMAS corrects itself using NSIDC concentration data, and I seem to recall it also cuts off at the 15% threshold, but I could be wrong.

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« Reply #2677 on: December 05, 2018, 03:17:32 PM »
I'm intrigued as well. I guess only Wipneus is qualified enough to explain this discrepancy. As far as I know PIOMAS corrects itself using NSIDC concentration data, and I seem to recall it also cuts off at the 15% threshold, but I could be wrong.

Not much help I am afraid. The assimilation used in PIOMAS is described here:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH1871.1

The assimilation of sea ice concentration (from NSIDC) does not mean it is instantly copied into the model, it is more "nudged" to the measured values. Smaller absolute values of concentration are nudged less than larger values.

The influence on volume, probably the most important output of PIOMAS, is likely small. My favorite glitch is the ice on the SW coast of Greenland, sometimes present when temperatures are well above zero.

And no, there are no 15% cut-offs. Not in my graphs, not in those of the PSC (to the best of my knowledge).

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« Reply #2678 on: December 05, 2018, 03:26:11 PM »
I'm intrigued as well. I guess only Wipneus is qualified enough to explain this discrepancy. As far as I know PIOMAS corrects itself using NSIDC concentration data, and I seem to recall it also cuts off at the 15% threshold, but I could be wrong.

Not much help I am afraid. The assimilation used in PIOMAS is described here:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH1871.1

The assimilation of sea ice concentration (from NSIDC) does not mean it is instantly copied into the model, it is more "nudged" to the measured values. Smaller absolute values of concentration are nudged less than larger values.

The influence on volume, probably the most important output of PIOMAS, is likely small. My favorite glitch is the ice on the SW coast of Greenland, sometimes present when temperatures are well above zero.

And no, there are no 15% cut-offs. Not in my graphs, not in those of the PSC (to the best of my knowledge).

I've got a nagging feeling that I've asked this same question before, and gotten answers as well, but anyway thanks for the answer (again) Wipneus and keep up the good work! And I agree, it doesn't really make any significant difference to the total.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2679 on: December 05, 2018, 06:05:37 PM »
Further to Binntho's observation of different products' ice edge, here is a PolarView location map (highlighted yellow box with yellow ice edge) and the imaged area (from 2018-12-04-T17:07:13) with my interpretation written in. On the scale of the location map, the ice edge appears to be pretty exact, and I presume this 'neatness' extends across the Atlantic front (which PolarView doesn't fully cover).  With increased scale, the edge gets fuzzier, of course.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2680 on: December 06, 2018, 11:00:25 PM »
I just did some big data treatment on extent, volume and thickness [Dicke], divided into 8 packs, each of them including five years, to look for the long-term trends on extent, volume and thickness of Arctic sea ice. To do this I calculated the average of 1979 to present for every month and averaged the deviations for each month ("Abw." in the graph) for each of the five-year-packs of these three measures.
Whereas extent seems to decrease more or less constantly in each five-year period, volume doesn't do that in the same fashion, thus thickness (calculated from division of volume by extent) also follows a more step-wise decrease than a "smoothy" one. For a better visualisation I used a second (right) y-axis for the deviation of volume.

See attached graph.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (December)
« Reply #2681 on: December 07, 2018, 12:07:49 AM »
I've just posted PIOMAS December 2018 on the ASIB.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2682 on: December 19, 2018, 08:40:12 AM »
PIOMAS gridded thickness data has been updated, last date 15 December.
Calculated volume at 15 December was 13.07 [1000 km3], which is 6th lowest for the day.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2683 on: December 19, 2018, 08:47:54 AM »
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It seems you gave the new graphs from beginning of November on to Neven, but not on your arctic penguin page, where the last data is from back then.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2684 on: December 19, 2018, 08:51:36 AM »
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It seems you gave the new graphs from beginning of November on to Neven, but not on your arctic penguin page, where the last data is from back then.

Thanks, seems I forgot something. Will update it as soon as the new data has been processed.


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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2685 on: December 19, 2018, 09:43:01 AM »
The volume and volume-anomaly graphs are updated (and uploaded). Attached.

No ice velocity data, so no updated Fram export graph.

Daily regional volume data uploaded:
https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/data/PIOMAS-regional.txt.gz




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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2686 on: December 19, 2018, 11:59:28 AM »
Here is the PIOMAS data for mid-December from Wipneus presented as tables & graphs in the sane format as I use for JAXA extent postings.

The data closely follows the 2010's average.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2687 on: January 09, 2019, 08:31:20 PM »
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Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2688 on: January 10, 2019, 02:24:30 AM »
'tis a pity world leaders get thicker as the ice gets thinner ! b.c.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (mid December update)
« Reply #2689 on: January 12, 2019, 10:30:59 AM »
Fortunately, I'm down with the flu.  ;)
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2690 on: February 01, 2019, 08:18:45 AM »
PIOMAS has updated to 31st December. Both the volume as the gridded thickness data are available. Volume on 31 december was 15.02 [1000km3], 6th lowest for the day (but nearly as low as  2011: 15.01 [1000km3]).

Here is the animation for December last year:

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2691 on: February 01, 2019, 08:20:19 AM »
Here are the volume and volume-anomaly graphs updated to 2018.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2692 on: February 01, 2019, 08:43:41 AM »
Attached the Fram volume export graph. December export below average.

Also updated regional data files:

https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/data/PIOMAS-regional-monthly.txt.gz
https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/data/PIOMAS-regional.txt.gz

I expect a new PIOMAS update is very near, so I postpone the latest thickness-difference maps.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2693 on: February 01, 2019, 09:18:56 AM »
Thanks Wipneus for these - any chance of a version where the 2018 (and later 2019) can be seen maybe dashed / different colour / thickness as there are three with almost identical reds on my screen?    Many thanks.


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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (November mid-monthly update)
« Reply #2694 on: February 01, 2019, 01:52:48 PM »
Here is the PIOMAS data for End-December from Wipneus presented as tables & graphs in the sane format as I use for JAXA extent postings.

The data closely follows the 2010's average.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2695 on: February 05, 2019, 09:32:16 AM »
While waiting for the lastest January data, here is an animation of the full range 1979-2018. Made possible by a recent inclusion of 1979-1999 daily thickness data.

Displayed are thickness data every 5th day to keep the file size relatively limited.

It is coded as an mp4 file, experimental for me, over 13meg in size, see it works for you.


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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2696 on: February 05, 2019, 09:39:27 AM »
Works beautifully! Thanks Wipneus.
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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2697 on: February 05, 2019, 10:34:50 AM »
It is coded as an mp4 file, experimental for me, over 13meg in size, see it works for you.

That's odd. QuickTime player on Mac can't open it. Will try on iOS later.

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2698 on: February 05, 2019, 12:00:41 PM »
Yes it works in Android and Windows 10.
As usual, it does not in the stubbornly incompatible but supercute Apple products (iPad). Not sure about Mac

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Re: Latest PIOMAS update (January)
« Reply #2699 on: February 05, 2019, 12:46:27 PM »
Super cool, Wip!
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