The January, 2016 Arctic Ocean area experienced the highest monthly 2m temp anomaly for the 2011-2016 period.
Thanks to Karsten Haustein, the imagery and data are made available on a very helpful webpage.
Karsten tracks the NCEP GFS, the NCAR/NCEP and GISS Global Temp imagery, data and forecasts.
The table lays out the Arctic Ocean temperature anomalies for all three data sources for January, 2011-2016. The average mean provides a composite anomaly from all three sources, as available.
Arctic Ocean Mean Temp Trends | |||||
NCEP-GFS-GISS | |||||
Mean Temps in K/C | |||||
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/climate.php | |||||
Year | Month | GFS | NCEP | GISS | Avg Mean |
2011 | Jan | 1.061 | 1.317 | 1.189 | |
2012 | Jan | 3.695 | 2.201 | 1.865 | 2.587 |
2013 | Jan | 2.130 | 1.601 | 0.666 | 1.466 |
2014 | Jan | 1.867 | 1.316 | 0.714 | 1.299 |
2015 | Jan | 1.292 | 0.884 | 0.500 | 0.892 |
2016 | Jan | 4.507 | 4.977 | 3.620 | 4.368 |
The following are the imagery for the January, 2016 results.
NCEP- GFS
Note the extreme anomalies over the Barents and stretching almost to 90N.
NCAR/NCEP
The NCAR/NCEP calculations shift the warmth into the Central Arctic.
GISS
The GISS Global Temp imagery reflects a similar pattern, yet misses the higher anomaly in the Central Arctic.
February, 2016 is available for two of the three indices, and will be posted later.
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