I thought I ought to post this picture of the North Pole ice station while
it is still there. The meltponds are advancing on it fast.
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0718074059.jpg

Cheers, Alastair.

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:55:59 +0100
"Alastair McDonald" wrote:

I thought I ought to post this picture of the North Pole ice station
while it is still there. The meltponds are advancing on it fast.
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0718074059.jpg

Cheers, Alastair.



I reckon melt-pond formation has been pretty late this year. Here's
the story from 2002-12:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ice-npole.shtml

The only archive I can find for camera 2 for this year is this:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...BCAM2/ARCHIVE/


--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
'To be is to do' - Kant
'Do be do be do' - Sinatra

On Thursday, 18 July 2013 15:55:59 UTC+1, Alastair wrote:
I thought I ought to post this picture of the North Pole ice station while

it is still there. The meltponds are advancing on it fast.

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0718074059.jpg



Cheers, Alastair.

Yes Alastair, its been exceptionally warm 80 degrees north this year

http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference.../sea-ice-page/ and what with the sea ice melt in the southern hemisphere
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...timeseries.png


Worrying times.

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
-jade...
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:55:59 +0100
"Alastair McDonald" wrote:

I thought I ought to post this picture of the North Pole ice station
while it is still there. The meltponds are advancing on it fast.
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0718074059.jpg

Cheers, Alastair.



I reckon melt-pond formation has been pretty late this year. Here's
the story from 2002-12:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ice-npole.shtml

Interesting, I had not seen that.

The only archive I can find for camera 2 for this year is this:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...BCAM2/ARCHIVE/

As you are probably aware, the main site for the North Pole webcams is he
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html
but the pictures shown there are not kept up to date. So, I posted the
latest one I could find from that archive, as I have also done in my reply
to Lawrence.

In the past, the cameras have fallen over when the snow on which they were
based melted. It will be interesting to see what happens this year, now the
scientists have experience from previous years.

Cheers, Alastair.




--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
'To be is to do' - Kant
'Do be do be do' - Sinatra

"Lawrence13" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 18 July 2013 15:55:59 UTC+1, Alastair wrote:
I thought I ought to post this picture of the North Pole ice station
while

it is still there. The meltponds are advancing on it fast.

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0718074059.jpg



Cheers, Alastair.

Yes Alastair, its been exceptionally warm 80 degrees north this year

http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference.../sea-ice-page/ and what with the
sea ice melt in the southern hemisphere
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...timeseries.png


Worrying times.

It is warming up now at 80N.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/mea...meanT_2013.png

But my post was not about that. Melt ponds form each year in the Arctic but
this year a large one has formed around one of the two web cameras.

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0719073910.jpg

The other camera is surrounded by snow
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northp...0719081315.jpg

There is nothing to worry about - YET. But there will be if the dive seen
starting here continues:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Cheers, Alastair.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:26:06 +0100
"Alastair McDonald" wrote:

As you are probably aware, the main site for the North Pole webcams
is he http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html
but the pictures shown there are not kept up to date.

I think that site stopped being the main one last year and this one
began to take over:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/
I think they are now the ones who deploy the instruments. The amount of
information was also less last year,no met or ice-thickness info as far
as I know. Perhaps NOAA haven't had the funding? Must have a look into
it when I find the energy - too hot.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
'To do is to be' - Nietsche
'To be is to do' - Kant
'Do be do be do' - Sinatra