Monthly Archives: August 2017

Map of the correlation between CCI SST and CCI cloud cover in the Pacific Ocean — The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon affecting global climate variability on seasonal to inter-annual time scales. It is an irregularly periodical variation in winds and sea surface temperatures (SST) over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, affecting much of the tropics and subtropics: The […]

Using CCI SST and clouds for studying ENSO

29 Aug, 2017 in Cloud / Sea surface temperature (updated on 22 May 2019)

Two-panel figure showing the sea-ice thickness in the Arctic without and with the CCI information — The sea-ice cover in both hemispheres is a key indicator and driver of climatic change. Over the past few decades, the area of Arctic sea ice in summer has for example decreased by about 50 %, raising prospects of an ice free Arctic Ocean during summer within a few decades. The […]

A new dimension: The CCI sea-ice thickness data set

29 Aug, 2017 in Sea ice (updated on 22 May 2019)