I totally forgot to keep an eye on this, but apparently videos have been put up of last month's Sea Ice Prediction Network workshop that was held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
As announced at the time I did a short presentation on Arctic sea ice, public perception and citizen science. It will probably not tell regular commenters here anything they didn't know, but I'm posting it anyway. Also watch out for my spectacular graphic card crash (well, it was spectacular for me :-) ) that interrupted the presentation by a couple of minutes:
And be sure to check out all the other videos. I know I will, as I didn't have time to watch/listen to all the other presentations. Predicting melting season outcomes is a fascinating science, and it's awesome that the Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) has been set up.
Neven did a fine job presenting the blog at this workshop; many people were intrigued.
In later sessions at the workshop, I was able to share some of the blog comments that were already being posted by ASIB folks watching the webcast.
Posted by: L. Hamilton | May 14, 2014 at 19:34
Thanks Neven (and Larry), very interesting and useful.
Data - the one problem I have is with netcdf format. Panoply handles it, but doing math on the data can't be done in Panoply. Flat binary and csv are fine in Excel (flat binary can be handled easily in Excel VBA - I'm a programming dunce and I manage it).
I recognise some datasets are too big for CSV to be of use, which is where derived like the stuff I make from PIOMAS comes in useful.
IMHO melt pond data is especially needed for June. Past melt pond data publicly available would allow verification of the CT Area anomaly cliff as a proxy for melt ponding.
Posted by: Chris Reynolds | May 14, 2014 at 23:10
Neven, you were very cool when your computer failed. Very professional.
Posted by: D | May 15, 2014 at 00:04
ncdump gives a csv representation of the contents of netcdf files.
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf/ncdump.html
Posted by: Wipneus | May 15, 2014 at 08:14
Thanks Wipneus,
Panopy does the same thing, but with NCEP/NCAR files at as big as 500MBytes...
Yes I know, I'm an idiot and should get to grips with something professional like R.
Posted by: Chris Reynolds | May 15, 2014 at 19:21
In related news, I've just returned home after an astonishing couple of days at the "Transformational Climate Science" conference just down the road from here at Exeter University. More from me in due course, but "selfies" were much in vogue today. Here's one especially for Chris Reynolds:
I also asked Dame Julia Slingo if she would care to be in one too, but after a few moments thought she politely declined. A few minutes earlier Dame Julia has suggested that "citizen science will be an incredibly powerful way to document and share the changes going on around us"
Posted by: econnexus | May 16, 2014 at 18:34
Very well done (given the gremlins, of course) and thanks for doing this.
Posted by: Eli Rabett | May 18, 2014 at 02:24
The Balkan floods :
The most outrageous thing about this flood, Thousands of landmines have been washed away from their original locations. You not only have a ruined life , it may have landmines buried in the mud next to your family keepsakes.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | May 18, 2014 at 03:35
Thanks, Eli.
That is indeed horrible, CB. I hate landmines.
Posted by: Neven | May 18, 2014 at 09:19
Sorry for continuing the off-topic:
When bridges collide
Coincidentally the driver who brought and helped me carry the kitchen appliances for our new house two days ago, comes from this very same region in Bosnia.
It's horrible, people are already so poor over there because of the war. These kinds of catastrophes will only add to the stress of a heavily polarized political situation in Bosnia.
Posted by: Neven | May 18, 2014 at 11:23
The slides from the Transformational Climate Science conference at Exeter University have now been made available. Whilst unfortunately incomplete, they should nonetheless be required reading for every politician on the planet!
View the slides from Thursday's presentations.
View the slides from Friday's presentations.
Posted by: econnexus | May 18, 2014 at 13:47
Neven,
I just watched/listened to your presentation. I didn't quite realize the uniqueness of your blog nor the value in relation to the uniqueness for such an important topic. Thank you for concentration all this information into an easy to find format and the ability for me to be involved even if in a very minor way.
Clearly the work of someone striving to discover and disseminate the truth to the highest degree possible.
Posted by: VaughnA | May 19, 2014 at 07:13
Thanks, Vaughn, and thanks for reading/watching/listening.
Posted by: Neven | May 19, 2014 at 09:09
My first full length article on the recent revolutionary events in Exeter:
http://econnexus.org/transformational-climate-science-at-exeter-university/
Storytelling, creative arts, music and poetry are now the recommended methods for climate science communication!
Posted by: econnexus | May 19, 2014 at 09:49
Also of possible interest -- the SIPN webcasts include results from a meta-analysis of SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook predictions from 2008-2013. Starts at 34:00 in this video of the first morning's presentations in Boulder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wLzGABwoNK4#t=2041
Neven posted about this SIO meta-analysis in March,
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2014/03/forecast-me-not.html
It's published in Geophysical Research Letters,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL059388/abstract
Write me if you'd like a copy of the paper.
Posted by: L. Hamilton | May 20, 2014 at 18:43