Website

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

Chart

Datasets

CRUTEM3land air temperature anomalies on a 5° by 5° grid-box basis
CRUTEM3vvariance adjusted version of CRUTEM3
HadCRUT3combined land and marine [sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies from HadSST2, see Rayner et al., 2006] temperature anomalies on a 5° by 5° grid-box basis
HadCRUT3vvariance adjusted version of HadCRUT3
HadSST2sea surface temperature anomalies from Rainer et al (2006)
AbsoluteAbsolute temperatures for the base period 1961-90 (see Jones et al., 1999)

References

  • Brohan, P., J.J. Kennedy, I. Harris, S.F.B. Tett and P.D. Jones, 2006: Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: a new dataset from 1850. J. Geophysical Research 111, D12106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006548 -- Available as PDF
  • Jones, P.D., New, M., Parker, D.E., Martin, S. and Rigor, I.G., 1999: Surface air temperature and its variations over the last 150 years. Reviews of Geophysics 37, 173-199.
  • Rayner, N.A., P. Brohan, D.E. Parker, C.K. Folland, J.J. Kennedy, M. Vanicek, T. Ansell and S.F.B. Tett, 2006: Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in marine temperature measured in situ since the mid-nineteenth century: the HadSST2 dataset. J. Climate, 19, 446-469.
  • Rayner, N.A., Parker, D.E., Horton, E.B., Folland, C.K., Alexander, L.V, Rowell, D.P., Kent, E.C. and Kaplan, A., 2003: Globally complete analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice and night marine air temperature, 1871-2000. J. Geophysical Research 108, 4407, doi:10.1029/2002JD002670

Acknowledgements

The Climate Change Resource Kit would like to thank Linux Lots and SourceForge for supplying resources to host this project

Stylesheets on this site originated at Loom/JContainer