I had been looking for some kind of real-time presentation of temperature anomaly data taken by satellite instrumentation. I finally came across this:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html
If you have a newer Internet browser with tabs, you can open two tabs in a new browser window with one tab with this one:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.1.3.2008.gif
...and the other tab with this one:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.3.3.2008.gif
That way, you can click back and forth from tab to tab to get an idea of how things have changed from essentially New Year's to now (first part of March), or in two month's time. With the way that one anomaly graph was going down in the last quarter of 2007, I have been wondering if it was going to bounce back up or continue the trend downward. I've been waiting for them to post an updated anomaly graph for February, 2008. I just got sick of waiting and went looking. This isn't a complete picture as land temperatures don't seem to be included in these graphs. However, from an ocean point of view, we still seem to be cooling.
Bear in mind that this isn't the same thing as a thermographic image--it's an anomaly chart. If an area is above the mean for the portion of the year represented, it's red-shifted. If it's below, it shifts blue. In toggling back and forth between the images, it looks to me like the proportion of blue areas to red is still increasing, which would (on the surface) indicate that we're still cooling planet-wide. Gotta' do some more checking...
Pidgey
