Ocean Heat Content: cooling gone today with new adjustment

Ocean Heat Content: cooling gone today with new adjustment

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WUWT readers may recall last week that we had an excellent guest analysis by Bob Tisdale titled:

Ocean Heat Content: Dropping again

Easy come, easy go. The data has been changed. Read on – Anthony

NODC’s CORRECTION TO OHC (0-700m) DATA

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale

I was advised today (Thanks, Fred) that the NODC has revised their Ocean Heat Content data. A quick check of the KNMI Climate Explorer News webpage…
http://climexp.knmi.nl/news.cgi?someone@somewhere
…reveals that it was revised on October 15, 2009 at KNMI.

And a check of the NODC data…
ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/woa/DATA_ANALYSIS/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/DATA/heat_3month/HC_0-700-3month.tar.gz
…shows that it was corrected on 10/15/09.

Dr. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh writes, “There was an error in the last 3-month data point of the NODC ocean heat content dataset, as anyone who made a map of the data could see. The problem has been fixed at NODC (thanks Gavin, Tim).”

Apparently the NODC hadn’t bothered to plot the data prior to posting it on September 14, 2009, or hadn’t thought there was a problem until…

Here’s a gif of the correction

http://i36.tinypic.com/2coomlw.gif
NODC CORRECTION

Thanks, Gavin and Tim.

Hmm, I’ll have to go back and update the “ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Data” post to make sure the ENSO-induced step changes are still there and verify the “North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Governed By Natural Variables” hasn’t changed, too.

H/T to Fred.