Sentences with phrase «climatological averaging period»

The maps and graphs included in the monthly summaries are based on anomalies relative to the climatological averaging period 1981 - 2010.

Not exact matches

The SST trace shows that, on average, temperatures around Caribbean reefs exceeded climatological values by close to 1 °C for a period of more than four months.

Whatever baseline period is adopted, it is important to acknowledge that there are differences between climatological averages based on century - long data (e.g., Legates and Wilmott, 1990) and those based on sub-periods.

So, for example, HadCRU and GISS each provide a climatological datum of mean global temperature for a single year and present it as a difference (i.e. an anomaly) from the average mean global temperature of a 30 year period.

The normal period of the heating degree days has been changed to the averages of the climatological normal period of 1981 - 2010 and the coefficients has been calculated to be equivalent to the new normal period.

1981 — 2010 is the latest 30 - year reference period defined by the WMO for calculating climatological averages.

The process for calculating temperature averages over a region starts with calculating, at each location, the difference in each time period (day, month, year) between the temperature at a location and that location's climatological average for a standard 1961 — 1990 reference period.

Climatological averages computed over the period 1981 — 2010.