On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 07:15:36 UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
Alastair wrote:

On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 7:43:01 AM UTC+1, Graham P Davis
wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 11:59:33 -0700 (PDT)
Alastair wrote:

Those covering that era (August? 1959 to sometime in 1982?) were
produced by the Met Office and should be available at their
Library/Archive but the paper copies may have gone missing. I've
asked for copies (they used to cost 3/6d!) but have been told that
I can only see them by visiting Exeter. If I'd known how important
they'd become I would've kept copies during the time I was
producing them.

The Met Office started production of Arctic Ice charts after the
Danish Met Institute end theirs. Their entire production
(1893-1956) is online he http://brunnur.vedur.is/pub/trausti/.
The charts are at the bottom of the page, either as jpg or pdf.

In the absence of easily-available charts for 1963, I used the
following graph to compare 2007 with 1963:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosph....1900-2010.png
I used 2007 because this year has just overtaken that year to be in
second place behind 2012.


Thanks Graham,

I had forgotten about
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosph....1900-2010.png

It would be nice if someone could get your maps from the Met Office
and put them on the web, but won't there be a problem with copyright?
But I am not volunteering. I've already got too many unfinished
jobs :-(


I would've done it but I have a horrible feeling that they've got rid
of the A4/foolscap published charts and merely retained the working
charts. I recall that it was official policy forty-five years ago that
only original working charts had to be kept although I'm fairly sure
the published monthly ice maps were there a few years ago, they're just
not listed in that format now. In any case, I'm not traipsing down to
Exeter on a wild goose chase.

Exitdoor Exitdoor who ya gonna call?
Everyone here still working there has now killfiled us all
Exitdoor Exitdoor Wet sheep in the way
All you need are dead deer files in places like Bjarnarey

Riding through the open sea on a nonstick holiday the Chinese freighters go with birdflu on the way.
The Ruskies won't say no, nor can the USA. The bunker oil exhausts will highlight them today.
Beware the black sea ice rising to the warm what horrors' yet to come from Graphiclayotherm

Who's dreaming of a white sickmess with SSWs everywhere?
With wavetops glistening, Tornado-Watch listening to hear what sounds like old sinus or tin-ear?