During the course of the year, CPC introduced an ONI dataset
using different base periods for determining anomalies for each year, with the most recent years (1995 to date) utilizing the 1981 — 2010 base period.
(Please note that different countries report anomalies with respect to
different base periods.
It shows that once you adjust for
different base periods, Nasa GISS, Noaa NCDC and Hadley HadCRU are virtually identical.
I find it amazing that some people still don't understand that the various sets are all relative to
different base periods.
Please note that different countries report anomalies with respect to
different base periods.