Part
1: Mild
December 2013 caused by off-shore wind farms and human activities in
North- and
Baltic Sea
?
Will winter 2013/14 show an anthropogenic impact?
03 January 2014 (seatraining2007_1412a)
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Our
weather in Europe is dominated by ocean conditions across the North
Atlantic, but a significant contribution is provided by all coastal sea
areas from Cap Finisterre to
North Cape
. Particularly semi-enclosed seas as the North- and Baltic Sea have a huge
impact on moderate winters in
Northern Europe
. (Fig.1, left) shows the temperature trend in North America during the
first week in 2014, and what an important impact the
Great
Lake
region has.
EXTRACT from wikipeadia: “The
lakes themselves also have a moderating impact on the climate, they can
also increase precipitation totals and produce lake-effect snowfall. Lake
effect The most well known winter effect of the
Great Lakes
on weather there is the lake effect, sometimes very localized. Even late
in winter lakes often have no icepack in the middle.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes
North Europe
just finished a very mild December 2013, but science has no clue why!
We
suspect a considerable contribution by man, for example shipping, and more
recently off-shore wind farms. Over the next three winter months, we will
discuss the matter along with observed weather conditions in detail.
For the start the sea water conditions on three days in December
2013 are reproduced, indication a temperature level well above average!
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Fig. 2, 01 December 2013
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Fig. 3, 15 December 2013
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Fig. 4, 31 December 2013
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Meanwhile more than 500 wind turbines are operating in the
North Sea
(Details:
wiki), grounded at a depth below sea surface of up to thirty metres,
and a diameter of several meters. They are all located in waters with
permanent tides. Thus
they have a huge mixing effect within the water column, and an
impact on surface water temperature and salinity structure. Is the impact
similar as the wind turbines may have on cloud forming, as indicated in
Fig. 5.
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Fig.
5, to which NASA
comments (extract):
“This
photo fascinates NOAA wind researcher Bob Banta, a scientist at the
Earth System Research Laboratory in
Boulder
,
Colorado
. He and other colleagues who study winds in the lower atmosphere
use the picture in PowerPoint talks, scribbling colored lines and
squiggles on it to speculate about what is happening where, and why.
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Toward the end of the year more warm water is pushed to the surface.
It seems high time to get clarity, whether off-shore wind farms and other
human activities in the marine environment have contributed to mild
December 2013 Fig. 2-4).
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