The Official Iceland Temperature Series – 2015
By Paul Homewood
In most parts of Iceland, last year was the coldest since 2000, in marked contrast to 2014.
The Iceland Temperature Series below is built up from the seven following sites, which have long running, high quality temperature records back to 1931 and earlier. They also present a reasonable geographic distribution. It is also important to note that the temperature data has been carefully homogenised over the years by the Iceland Met Office, to adjust for station moves, equipment changes etc. (For more detail, see here).
Reykjavik
Stykkisholmur
Akureyri
Grimsstadir
Storhofoi
Teigarhorn
Haell
http://en.vedur.is/climatology/data/
The warm years of the 1930’s and 40’s, and much colder ones that followed clearly correlate with the AMO cycle. Although the warmth has been more persistent in the last decade, only one year, 2014, has been warmer than those earlier years.
There is no evidence to suggest that temperature trends will increase in the next few years, and much to suggest that Iceland will suffer from a return of a very cold climate once the AMO turns cold again.
We can see the same patterns in the individual stations below:
Needless to say, the adjusted GISS versions below bear no comparison.
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Excuse my cynicism but does this mean Iceland hasn’t swallowed the AGW pill and corrupted their data? “Carefully homogenised” tingles my skeptic bone. I’ve noticed several Scandinavian/Northern European countries don’t buy into the AGW hysteria with the same fervor and belief as their Southerly neighbors.
IMO expressly disagrees with what GISS has done to their data. Citations in essay When Data Isn’t in my latest ebook.
In my experience, the Nordic people are typically very honest and don’t suffer fools gladly. I’m certain the adjustments they have made to the temperature series would have genuinely reflected changes in sites etc, rather than being made to fit a theory. Rather than sticking their heads above the parapet, they’ll just carry on telling the truth in a quiet way such as this.
IMO also publish the raw data, and at most stations there is very little adj.
The only significant change is at Reykjavik, during the war years when it moved onto a roof top in the middle of town. Afterweards, it moved back again to its original site.
The key, of course, is that there is no need at all for GHCN/GISS to make their own adjustments, as the IMO have already made any necessary changes based on very well recorded and preserved metadata
http://en.vedur.is/climatology/articles/nr/1213
Looks like Iceland’s been slowly warming for 200 years.
And why Climastrologists love starting history in 1979 when discussing polar sea ice?
I don’t speak Icelandic (or whatever language this is), can you tell me what the chart shows? Is it sea ice?
Mean temps at Akureyri, which is one of the more Northerly sites and thus more”arctic”.
Annual temperature in Akureyri
So it seems to show warming since the 1800’s?
Also the data seems to end around 2004?
Why mention polar sea ice, when the graph doesn’t show it.
Because 1979 was a very cold year with a large amount of ice knocking around.
There is no evidence to suggest that temperature trends will increase in the next few years, and much to suggest that Iceland will suffer from a return of a very cold climate once the AMO turns cold again.
The Icelanders don’t need to fear a return to colder times, Gavin will just wave his adjustment wand and make it warm again. Sort of reminds me of the joke about the baby polar bear.
Inquiring minds need to know about this baby polar bear.
Baby polar bear says to his mum, ‘Am I really a polar bear?’
Mummy polar bear looks askance and replies, ‘What an odd question! I’m a polar bear, your dad’s a polar bear, of course you’re a polar bear. If you don’t believe me, ask your father’.
So baby polar bear goes to his father and asks ‘Am I really a polar bear?’
‘What a question for a son of mine to ask’ says daddy polar bear. I’m a polar bear, your mother’s a polar bear, your grandfather is a polar bear, of course you’re a polar bear. If you don’t believe me, ask your grandfather’.
So baby polar bear asks his grandfather, ‘Granddad, am I really a polar bear?’ Of course you are lad’, replies granddad, ‘why do you ask?’
‘Because’, says baby polar bear, ‘my feet are bloody freezing!’
Could you digitally sum the GISS Icelandic anomalies and subtract from them the Icelandic, Icelandic anomalies and see what effect GISS has on the whole Icelandic record for Global Temp purposes?
Hare is the original ‘raw’ data (v2) for Reykjavik from GISS (data which has now been archived).
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040300000&dt=1&ds=1
Quite an adjustment.
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