The GISTEMP monthly global temperature series was used for all temperature data.
Not exact matches
The NASA results, calculated by Goddard Institute for Space Studies are published
monthly on the NASA / GISS website (
GISTEMP).
Fig. 1 Revision history of two individual
monthly values for January 1910 and January 2000 in the
GISTEMP global temperature data from NASA (Source: WUWT)
The reluctance of
GISTEMP to follow HADCRUT and publish offsets for
monthly data rather than just an offset for the annual data might be overcome by publishing
monthly offsets relative to the annual figure.
GISTEMP is published intentionally leaving out a table of
monthly offsets that would correspond to fig. 7.
The GISS homepage formerly said: The NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (
GISTEMP) provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with
monthly resolution for the period since 1880, when a reasonably global distribution of meteorological stations was established.
The NASA
GISTEMP global average surface temperature data have been updated to include January 2016, which had the largest
monthly temperature anomaly ever recorded: 1.13 °C elsius above the 1951 - 1980 baseline.
The weather station data for NASA's
GISTEMP come from the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN -
monthly version 3).
The NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (
GISTEMP) provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with
monthly resolution for the period since 1880, when a reasonably global distribution of meteorological stations was established.
Related Links + For more information on NASA GISS's
monthly temperature analysis, visit: data.giss.nasa.gov /
gistemp.
Figure 2 shows the number of station records available for each month in both the existing GHCN -
Monthly data (used as the basis for reconstructions by
GISTemp / NCDC / CRUTEM) and the new Berkeley data.
For example, I doubt that worldwide, the
monthly GISTemp, HadCRUT or other series will be wildly anomalous as the great heat in the US / Central Canada is well balanced by cool areas elsewhere — Newfoundland where I live being one of them: — LRB -.
Comparing
monthly data of
GISTEMP & MLO CO2 - rise, relative to their linear trends,
GISTEMP has a wobble and noise about a third the size of that within the MLO CO2 - rise data.
(In other words, even if the
monthly anomalies reported for
GISTEMP, for example, were accurate to 0.00001 degrees, it wouldn't change the fact that we'd need well over a decade of readings to ascertain the long - term trend, because the variability is real feature of the system and not simply a measurement error.)