Supplementary Information Available for Download


Sea Ice


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Figure “Arctic sea ice”

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Figure “Antarctic sea ice”

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Figure “Sea ice extent”

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Figure “Global sea ice extent”

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Figure “Arctic sea ice”

Arctic sea ice 1870 to 2008.csv

Long term arctic sea ice from 1870 to 2008. The file has annual mean, maximum and minimum seasonal values. The file has 3 columns, 142 rows and 552 not-blank items.

SeaIce-02.csv

Monthly sea from 1978 to 2008. The file has monthly values of sea ice extent for the Arctic and the Antarctic. The files has 10 columns, 389 rows and 3261 non-blank items.


Sea Levels


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Figure “Global sea level – 1880 to present

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Map of Pacific Islands with data.

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pi03-Fiji.gif

pi04-FS Micronesia.gif

pi05-Kiribati.gif

pi06-Marshall Islands.gif

pi07-Nauru.gif

pi08-Papua NG.gif

pi09-Samoa.gif

pi10-Solomon Islands.gif

pi11-Tonga.gif

pi12-Tuvalu.gif

pi13-Vanuatu.gif

Plots of sea level change and Southern Oscillation Index.

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Plot of sea level change of Rabual in Papua New Guinea.

Sea-levels.csv

The file has monthly sea level from tide gauges for two tide gauges based records: one from 1807, one from 1870. It also has monthly levels from the Jason/Poseidon satellite systems from 1993 to present. The file has 8 columns, 2425 rows and 9666 non-blank items.

Pacific islands.csv

The data used to produce the above plots of sea level. The files has 27 columns, 214 rows and 4856 non-black items.

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Figure “Sea level variation – Maldives”

Maldives.csv

The file has monthly data for three stations in the Maldives from 1987 to 2003. The file has 4 columns, 207 Rows and 658 non-blank items.


Snow Cover


MonthlySnowCover.csv

The data file used to produce the monthly plot of snow cover.

AnnualSnowCover.csv

The data files used to produce the plots of annual, summer and winter snow cover.

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The plot of monthly snow cover

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The plot of annual, summer and winter snow cover.

Global Snow and Ice.gif

The plot of Global snow and ice cover


Tropical Cyclones


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The figure “Atlantic hurricanes of different intensities – Saffir-Simpson scale””

Storms.csv

Annual data from 1851 to 2007 of Atlantic storms which make landfall. There are 5 columns of number storms which equal or exceed a given level and 5 columns of moving average data. The file has 1679 non-blank items.

ACE-Atlantic.gif

The Accumulated Cyclone Energy for the Atlantic.

ACE-Pacific.gif

The Accumulated Cyclone Energy for the Pacific.

ACEAtlantic.csv

The calculated values of ACE from 1851 to 2008 for the Atlantic.

ACEPacific.csv

The calculated values of ACE from 1949 to 2008 for the Pacific.