Website

The National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/msu.html

UAH Climate Data
http://climate.uah.edu/

UAH Climate Background
http://www.uah.edu/News/climatebackground.php

Chart

Datasets

UAH NCDC LT	UAH Lower Troposphere
UAH NCDC MT	UAH Mid Troposphere
UAH NCDC LS	UAH Lower Stratosphere

References

Selected research publications

Christy, J.R. and R.W. Spencer, "Reliability of satellite data sets." Science, 301, 1046-1047, 2003.

Christy, J.R., R.W. Spencer, W.B. Norris, W.D. Braswell and D.E. Parker, "Error estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU/AMSU bulk atmospheric temperatures." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20, 613-629, 2003.

Christy, J.R., D.E. Parker, S.J. Brown, I. Macadam, M. Stendel and W.B. Norris, "Differential trends in tropical sea surface and atmospheric temperatures." Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 183-186, 2001

Spencer, R.W., and W.D. Braswell, "Atlantic tropical cyclone monitoring with AMSU-A: Estimation of maximum sustained wind speeds." Monthly Weather Review, 129, 1518-1532, 2001.

Robertson, R.W., R.W. Spencer and D.E. Fitzjarrald, "A new satellite deep convective ice index for tropical climate monitoring: Possible implications for existing oceanic precipitation datasets." Geophysical Research Letters, 28-2, 251-254, 2001.

Winter, A., O. Tadamichi, H. Ishioroshi, T. Watanabe and J. R. Christy, "A two-to-three degree cooling of Caribbean sea surface temperatures during the Little Ice Age." Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3365-3368, 2000

Hurrell, J., S.J. Brown, K.E. Trenberth and J.R. Christy, "Comparison of tropospheric temperatures from radiosondes and satellites: 1979-1998." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81, 2165-2177, 2000.

Imaoka, K., and R.W. Spencer, "Diurnal variation of precipitation over the tropical oceans observed with TRMM/TMI combined with SSM/I." Journal of Climate, 13, 4149-4158, 2000.

Gaffen, D.J., B.D. Santer, J.S. Boyle, J.R. Christy, N.E. Graham, R.J. Ross, "Multidecadal changes in the vertical structure of the tropical troposphere." Science, 287, 1242-1245, 2000.

Christy, J.R., "Global Climate Change: Scientific and Social Impacts." Bridges. 7, 39-57, 2000.

Christy, J.R., R.W. Spencer, and W.D. Braswell, "MSU Tropospheric temperatures: Data set construction and radiosonde comparisons." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 17,1153-1170, 2000.

Stendel, M., J.R. Christy and L. Bengtsson, "Assessing levels of uncertainty in recent temperature time series." Climate Dynamics, 16(8), 587-601, 2000.

Christy, J.R., R.W. Spencer, and E. Lobl, "Analysis of the merging procedure for the MSU daily temperature time series." Journal of Climate, 11, 2016-2041, 1998.

Spencer, R.W., F.J. Fontaine, T. DeFelice and F.J. Wentz, "Tropical oceanic precipitation changes after the 1991 Pinatubo eruption." Journal of Atmospheric Science, 55, 1707-1713, 1998.

Christy, J.R., R.W. Spencer, and W.D. Braswell, "How accurate are satellite 'thermometers?'" Nature, 389, 342-3, 1997.

Spencer, R.W., and W.D. Braswell, "How dry is the tropical troposphere? Implications for global warming theory." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 1097-1106, 1997.

Christy, J.R., R.W. Spencer and R.T. McNider, "Reducing noise in the MSU daily lower tropospheric global temperature data set." Journal of Climate, 8, 888-896, 1995.

Christy, J.R. and J. Goodridge, "Precision global temperatures from satellites and urban warming effects of non-satellite data." Atmospheric Environment, 29, 1957-1961, 1995.

Christy, J.R. and R. T. McNider, "Satellite greenhouse signal." Nature, 367, 325, 1994.

Christy, J.R. and S.J. Drouilhet, "Variability in daily, zonal mean lower-stratospheric temperatures." Journal of Climate, 7, 106-120, 1994.

Spencer, R.W., and J.R. Christy, "Precise monitoring of global temperature trends from satellites." Science, 247, 1558-1562, 1990.