INFOTERRA: Ice cover in Northern hemisphere
Dear readers,
Current weather in the Northern Hemisphere is extremely cold, where
freezing of the Baltic see only was exceeded in 1948. See:
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20030108IE1
After the alarming rate of Arctic 2002 summer sea ice melting, winter
freezing seems to be more in line with a reversal of the NAO (North
Atlantic Oscillation). This is no sign of global cooling (neither is the
summer melting a proof for global warming), but a natural reversing trend
with recurrent maxima and minima over 7-11 and 16-20 years. Superposed on a
century scale oscillation.
See: http://arctic.bio.utk.edu/SBI%20meeting%20abstracts%5CSession1%5CWang.pdf
The satellite data show a strong correlation between the differences in ice
cover and the NAO, see the NASA web site at:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011001icepuzzle.html
Sincerely,
Ferdinand Engelbeen
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Ferdinand Engelbeen
Oude Ertbrandstraat 12
B-2940 Stabroek
Belgium
Tel. +32-3-605.38.14
Fax +32-3-605.43.96
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