ATOC 184 Lecture Notes - Wallaceburg, Eugenius Warming, Sea Ice

• School: McGill University
• Department: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Course: ATOC 184
• Professor: Eyad Atallah

Document Summary

Red: above normal high about 4-5 degrees. We consider 1-2 degrees over the course of the year to be significant. A lot of the anomalies are over north america. There are more increases in temperature than decrease (more green-red than blue-purple). Us national ranking: january-november 2012 was warmest year on record in the. Us regional ranking: 60% of the country experienced warmest temperature on record. About 85% of the country was very warm. Columbia and other regions were not impacted as much. Most of this anomaly came from a 3- week period, where it was so cold that the signal of this cold period is still seen when averaged out over a 3-month period. In canada, winter was non-existent (warm temperatures, not much snow fall) People played golf in winnipeg because the heat was over an extended period of time. Summer in march (2012): 8-15 march 2012 had temperatures up to 15 degrees celsius above normal.