«The 2015 paper was essentially NOAA releasing a new version of their global
land ocean record,» says Zeke Hausfather, a graduate student at UC Berkeley and lead author of the new Science Advances paper.
Not exact matches
Land and Ocean Combined: The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6
Land and
Ocean Combined: The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6
Ocean Combined: The combined average temperature over global
land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6
land and
ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6
ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the
record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6 °C).
The global average temperature over
land and
ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on
record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature over
land and
ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the highest for August since
record keeping began in 1880.
Remarkably, the new
records show that the sediment delivery from
land to this deep
ocean location increased four-fold during the PETM event.
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland are running experiments with an automated submersible that has a camera designed to
record bioluminescent signals as it descends through the
ocean and
lands on the seafloor.
Suomi NPP's job is to collect environmental observations of atmosphere,
ocean and
land for both NOAA's weather and oceanography operational missions and NASA's research mission to continue the long - term climate
record to better understand Earth's climate and long - term trends.
Global
ocean temperatures were unprecedented during the period, and several
land areas, including the continental United States, Australia, Europe, South America and Russia, broke temperature
records by large margins.
Regionally, the Northern Hemisphere temperature across
land and
oceans combined was also
record high for its summer season, while the Southern Hemisphere temperature was fourth highest for its winter season.
June — August 2014, at 0.71 °C (1.28 °F) higher than the 20th century average, was the warmest such period across global
land and
ocean surfaces since
record keeping began in 1880, edging out the previous
record set in 1998.
According to the
Land &
Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, monthly
record warmth was observed over much of northern Canada, far northwestern Russia, southern Japan, the Philippines, part of southwestern China, and central southern Africa.
According to the
Land &
Ocean Temperature Percentile map above, a region of coastal west Africa, part of Greece, northwestern Iran, much of the southern Philippines, and central and south central Australia were
record warm for the period.
With
records dating back to 1880, the global temperature across the world's
land and
ocean surfaces for August 2014 was 0.75 °C (1.35 °F) higher than the 20th century average of 15.6 °C (60.1 °F).
This is the seventh consecutive season in which the globe (
land and
ocean) was
record warm, starting with summer (Jun - Aug) 2014.
In previous years, Antarctic sea ice hit
record highs, potentially due to changing
ocean conditions linked to the melting of
land - bound glaciers.
Note the more spatially uniform warming in the satellite tropospheric
record while the surface temperature changes more clearly relate to
land and
ocean.
The January global
land surface temperature was also second highest on
record, while the global
ocean surface temperature was third highest.
With the contribution of such
record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year
record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across
land and
ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous
record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).
Nearly all of Eurasia, Africa, and the remainder of South America were much warmer than average, or within the top 10 percent of their historical
records for their regions, according to the
Land &
Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above.
Most of Earth's
land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern A
land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the
Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern A
Land &
Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with
record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.
The December 2015 globally - averaged temperature across
land and
ocean surfaces was 1.11 °C (2.00 °F) above the 20th century average of 12.2 °C (54.0 °F), the highest for any month since
records began in 1880, surpassing the previous all - time
record set two months ago in October by 0.12 °C (0.21 °F).
Throughout this time, the geologic
record reveals that dramatic changes have occurred to Earth's
oceans, atmosphere, climate, and
land forms, which match major biological transitions.
Similar to the March — May global
land and
ocean surface temperature, the March — May
land surface temperature was also the fourth highest three - month departure from average for any three - month period on
record.
August set the
record for the warmest
ocean temperatures ever
recorded, though
land areas were also more than 2 °F above normal for the month.
The important point the study makes is that the onset of warming in the tropical
ocean in the 1830s is earlier than is typically assumed from the instrumental
record and from other proxy reconstructions that have focused mainly on Northern Hemisphere
land temperatures.
The globally averaged temperature over
land and
ocean surfaces for 2015 was the highest among all years since
record keeping began in 1880.
What we think of as the modern temperature
record is made up of many thousands of measurements from the air above
land and the
ocean surface, collected by ships, buoys and sometimes satellites, too.
Since NOAA began keeping
records in 1880, the combined global
land and
ocean surface temperature was the warmest on
record for both April and for the period from January through April in 2010.
During the final month, the December combined global
land and
ocean average surface temperature was the highest on
record for any month in the 136 - year
record.
During the final month, the December combined global
land and
ocean average surface temperature was the third highest for December in the 137 - year
record.
«For 18 months, I
recorded land, sea and
ocean temperature at Herring Cove Beach (Cape Cod).
In addition, since the global surface temperature
records are a measure that responds to albedo changes (volcanic aerosols, cloud cover,
land use, snow and ice cover) solar output, and differences in partition of various forcings into the
oceans / atmosphere /
land / cryosphere, teasing out just the effect of CO2 + water vapor over the short term is difficult to impossible.
Dan (# 52) also points out that the very same trends which we are seeing on
land are showing up in temperature
records at sea and the atmosphere, and as Spencer (# 1) points out, in boreholes, and as I have pointed out, in the
ocean depths down to 1500 meters.
«The global annual temperature for combined
land and
ocean surfaces for 2007 is expected to be near 58.0 °F and would be the fifth warmest since
records began in 1880.
-- The combined global
land and
ocean average surface temperature for the December — February period was 0.41 °C (0.74 °F) above the 20th century average of 12.1 °C (53.8 °F), making it the 17th warmest such period on
record and the coolest December — February since 2008.
Just based on the GISS combined
land /
ocean monthlies through April (I assume what's used for the
record, but perhaps it's
land only?)
«The combined average temperature over global
land and
ocean surfaces tied with 2010 as the highest on
record for April, at 58.09 °F (14.47 °C) or 1.39 °F (0.77 °C) above the 20th century average.»
Secondly, since the
ocean warming is shown to be consistent with the
land surface changes, this helps validate the surface temperature
record, which is then unlikely to be purely an artifact of urban biases etc..
«While these improvements in the
land and
ocean temperature
record reveal a rate of warming greater than previously documented, ****** we also found that our computed trends likely continue to underestimate the true rate of warming.
Re # 9 John Wegner: «The
Land -
Ocean temperature trend line is below Scenario C for most of the
record and the end point in your graphic — 2005.....
For the 2005 global
land -
ocean index to exceed the annual 1998
record, the mean anomaly needs to stay above 0.51 °C for the next three months.
The
Land -
Ocean temperature trend line is below Scenario C for most of the
record and the end point in your graphic — 2005.
If the
land record is suspect, then look only at the
ocean record.
This result is a combination of
land data, using stations where the only measurements
recorded are those of the maximum and minimum daily temperature, and
ocean data which are probably much more representative of the true daily mean.
And at last they have found a new one: they suggest that the difference in the temperature increase over
land and the
oceans during the last decades might be due to contaminations of the
land temperature
record — They call it an anomalous behaviour — ignoring that it corresponds fully to what is physically expected.
Now
land and
ocean are both near
records.
There was less rainfall over
land, and a
record decrease in runoff and
ocean discharge into the
ocean from October 1991 to September 1992, the scientists report this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Longer
records now available show significantly faster rates of warming over
land than
ocean in the past two decades (about 0.27 °C vs. 0.13 °C per decade).
It is probable, however, that at least part of that discrepancy is due to an under reporting of observed trends as shown by Cowtan and Wray, and by the recent Best global (
land plus
ocean) tempertature
record.
The combined average temperature over global
land and
ocean surfaces for April 2016 was 1.98 °F above the 20th century average — the highest temperature departure for April since global
records began in 1880.