While atmospheric GEM concentrations reconstructed from Summit firn air are higher than mean
hemispheric values, they reproduce GEM levels observed shipboard between 40 ° and 50 ° N (see Fig.
To avoid the better sampled northern hemisphere from dominating the temperature record, scientists take the average of the two
hemispheric values.
Together,
the hemispheric values provide an estimate of global average temperature.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, if we look at the SH non-smoothed annual datafile and accept that the years 1944 - 1945 were the beginning of a trend - shift for global temperatures, we see that in these years the southern
hemispheric average temperature was about 14.02 C and 13.96 C, respectively (assuming a 14C
value for the» 61 - ’90 SH average, I don't have any better
value but it doesn't matter very much).
Their qualitative approach precluded any quantitative summary of the evidence at precise times, limiting the
value of their review as a basis for comparison of the relative magnitude of mean
hemispheric 20th - century warmth (Mann and Jones, 2003; Osborn and Briffa, 2006).