Red Hot Bugs

clipped from chiefio.wordpress.com see his website “Musings from the Chiefio“ The empty ocean goes infinite hot on a null anomaly What to make of THIS bizarre anomaly map? Well, you always need a baseline benchmark, even if you are ‘benchmarking the baseline’, so why not start with the “NULL” case of baseline equal to report period? It ought to be a simple all white land area with grey oceans for missing data. Well, I was “A bit surprised” when I got a blood red ocean everywhere on the planet. You can try it yourself at the NASA / GISS web site map making page. “Houston, I think you have a problem”… Well, the code NASA GISS publishes and says is what they run, is not this code that they are running. Yes, they are not publishing the real code. So I simply can not do any debugging on this issue, because the code that produces these maps is not available. But what I can say is pretty simple: If a map with no areas of unusual warmth (by definition with the baseline = report period) has this happen; something is wrong.