You stated «The red line is the annual global -
mean GISTEMP temperature record (though any other data set would do just as well),...
Not exact matches
The time evolution of the Northern Hemisphere
mean for the two data sets is shown in the lower panel, showing a good agreement over most of the record, but with slightly higher
GISTEMP estimates over the last 10 years (the global
mean was not shown because my computer didn't have sufficient memory for the complete analysis, but the two data sets also show similar evolution in e.g. the IPCC AR4).
First, a graph showing the annual
mean anomalies from the CMIP3 models plotted against the surface temperature records from the HadCRUT4, NCDC and
GISTEMP products (it really doesn't matter which).
GISTEMP assumes that the Arctic is warming as fast as the stations around the Arctic, while HadCRUT4 and NCDC assume the Arctic is warming as fast as the global
mean.
Figure caption: (upper left) HadCRUT 3V
mean T (2m) anomaly over 1976 - 2005 (wrt to 1950 - 1980); (upper right) The GISS — HadCRUT 3V difference in
mean T (2m) over 1976 - 2005; and (lower) the Northern Hemisphere
mean temperature variations (red =
GISTEMP, black = HadCRUT 3v).
Taking a longer perspective, the 30 year
mean trends aren't greatly affected by a single year (
GISTEMP: 1978 - 2007 0.17 + / -0.04 ºC / dec; 1979 - 2008 0.16 + / -0.04 — OLS trends, annual data, 95 % CI, no correction for auto - correlation; identical for HadCRU); they are still solidly upwards.
By coincidence, yesterday was also the scheduled update for the
GISTEMP July temperature release, and because July is usually the warmest month of the year on an absolute basis, a record in July usually
means a record of absolute temperature too.
The time evolution of the Northern Hemisphere
mean for the two data sets is shown in the lower panel, showing a good agreement over most of the record, but with slightly higher
GISTEMP estimates over the last 10 years (the global
mean was not shown because my computer didn't have sufficient memory for the complete analysis, but the two data sets also show similar evolution in e.g. the IPCC AR4).
I was very interested to read that the annual
mean UHI adjustment was applied for all months in the
GISTEMP data.
GISTEMP assumes that the Arctic is warming as fast as the stations around the Arctic, while HadCRUT and NCDC assume the Arctic is warming as fast as the global
mean.
For Figure 1, global
mean temperatures are plotted from the HadCRUT4 and
GISTEMP products relative to a 1900 - 1940 baseline, together with global
mean temperatures from 81 available simulations in the CMIP5 archive, also relative to the 1900 - 1940 baseline, where all available ensemble members are taken for each model.
Fig. 1 (b) shows that the anomaly between observations and the CMIP5
mean temperature response to cumulative emissions is halved by repeating the Millar analysis with the
GISTEMP product instead of HadCRUT.
Plotting these temperatures as anomalies (by removing the
mean over a common baseline period)(red lines) reduces the spread, but it is still significant, and much larger than the spread between the observational products (
GISTEMP, HadCRUT4 / Cowtan & Way, and Berkeley Earth (blue lines)-RRB-:
They show a rising global
mean temperature in the eighties and nineties when the satellites (both UAH and RSS),
GISTEMP and NCDC all show a horizontal global
mean from 1979 to 1997.
2015 was about 0.12 C warmer than 2014 (
GISTEMP), which still leaves it below the model
mean, but well within the uncertainty.
Let us therefore compare satellite data (UAH6.0) with surface data (
GISTEMP Land / Ocean) measured for the Southern Hemisphere (SH), from 1979 till 2015: You hopefully see like me a good correlation between the two, shown by both linear estimates and 60 month running
means.
CBDunkerson @ 4, I have previously caclulated that using the Mann 2008 EIV reconstruction and the 1736 - 1765
mean value as the «preindustrial» benchmark», the gives a preindustrial temperature 0.12 C lower than using the
GISTEMP 1880 - 1909
mean.
The
GISTEMP analysis was not affected by this error, i.e. none of the results, tables, maps, graphs about global or regional
means changed.
GISTemp recently started using satellite observations of lights at night to identify urban regions — more light
means more urban.
GISTEMP global
mean temperature and OSTIA observed SST anomalies for December 2015 relative to 1985 - 2013.
New Environment Canada stations (recall that some of the Environment Canada data is for stations that are not in GHCN) do not get any brightness information in the v2.inv file; it so happens that in ccc -
gistemp this
means they get marked as rural, more by accident by design.
In the
GISTEMP index, the tables of zonal, global, hemispheric
means are computed by combining the 100 subbox series for each box of the equal area grid, then combining those to get 8 zonal
mean series, finally from those we get the Northern (23.6 - 90ºN), Southern and tropical
means, always using the same method.
These are both defendable choices, but when calculating global
mean anomalies in a situation where the Arctic is warming up rapidly, there is an obvious offset between the two records (and indeed
GISTEMP has been trending higher).
Re the
GISTEMP Land - Ocean Index graph: I should think that an 8 - year RUNNING
MEAN would give an astonishingly - good fit to the data; one that will be statistically - sound as a regression.
And since it is not the «current»
GISTEMP dataset, your critiques have little to no
meaning in discussions of land plus ocean datasets» (You then describe the well known components of LOTI)
All of the plots are temperature deviation from their own 1951 - 1980
mean (per
GISTEMP).