Dear Mick, Thanks so much.
Alan [On sabbatical for current academic year. The best way to contact me is by email, [email protected], or at 732-881-1610 (cell).] Alan Robock, Professor II (Distinguished Professor) Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University 14 College Farm Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 [email protected] http://www.envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock/ Sent from my iPhone. +1-732-881-1610 On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Mick West <[email protected]> wrote: > The polar plots were done by [Add->Image Overlay] in Google Earth, then > stretching the image to cover the globe, and aligning the continents. > Fortunately you used lat/long as the projection, as everything lined up very > well, although of course it skews the area representation somewhat in the 2D > version. > > If you open the following file in Google Earth it will give you a folder > containing the two overlays mapped onto the globe, and you can view it from > various positions and orientations. > > http://contrailscience.com/f/Robock-figures.kml > > Mick. > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Alan Robock <[email protected]> > wrote: > Dear Ken, > > Actually, the GISS ModelE has a little too much sea ice. However, if you > look at Fig. 9 of our first geoengineering paper, > http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/2008JD010050small.pdf , you will see > that we indeed had an increase in sea ice in the very location that the > Hadley model shows an increase in absorbed solar. Our sea ice is not that > bad, but the entire Arctic is covered for the current climate, which is too > much sea ice. > > So the answer lies in clouds. What is plotted is changes in downward solar, > not net downward solar, so sea ice does not matter. How much was your wager? > > By the way, the polar plots are great. How was that done? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
