Dr Curry, the mean model
surface temperature trend estimate is ~ 0.20 C / decade compared to Cowtan and Way ~ +0.17 C or GISS ~ +0.16 C (both attempting improved Arctic representation).
The government dataset, called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature version 4, increased the sea
surface temperature trend estimate over the last 18 years from 0.07 ° Celsius per decade to 0.12 ° Celsius per decade, partly because of adjustments for different types of measuring instruments.
Liebmann, B., R. M. Dole, C. Jones, I. Bladé, and D. Allured, 2010: Influence of choice of time period on global
surface temperature trend estimates.
Not exact matches
(Bottom) Patterns of linear global
temperature trends from 1979 to 2005
estimated at the
surface (left), and for the troposphere (right) from the
surface to about 10 km altitude, from satellite records.
Global mean
surface temperatures have risen by 0.74 °C ± 0.18 °C when
estimated by a linear
trend over the last 100 years (1906 — 2005).
[Response: The study quoted uses the difference between the weather models and the mostly independent
surface temperature record to
estimate a residual
trend.
Since the mid 1970's, global
estimates of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes show an upward
trend strongly correlated with increasing tropical sea -
surface temperature.
Back in 2008, a cottage industry sprang up to assess what impact the Thompson et al related changes would make on the
surface air
temperature anomalies and
trends — with
estimates ranging from complete abandonment of the main IPCC finding on attribution to, well, not very much.
These results suggest that sea
surface temperature pattern - induced low cloud anomalies could have contributed to the period of reduced warming between 1998 and 2013, and offer a physical explanation of why climate sensitivities
estimated from recently observed
trends are probably biased low 4.
For this reason, a number of researchers have suggested that it should be possible to
estimate the long term Sea
Surface Temperature trends for a given area by averaging together all the available measurements from different voyages that went through that area in a given month.
Indeed, many of the groups using weather station records for
estimating global
temperature trends, also combine their
estimates with the sea
surface temperature records to construct «land - and - sea» global
temperature estimates.
To appreciate the issues involved in comparing
estimates of
surface and lower tropospheric
temperature trends, it is necessary to have at least a rudimentary understanding of these three kinds of measurements and the uncertainties inherent in each of them.
Surface warming / ocean warming: «A reassessment of temperature variations and trends from global reanalyses and monthly surface climatological datasets» «Estimating changes in global temperature since the pre-industrial period» «Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus» «Assessing the impact of satellite - based observations in sea surface temperature trends
Surface warming / ocean warming: «A reassessment of
temperature variations and
trends from global reanalyses and monthly
surface climatological datasets» «Estimating changes in global temperature since the pre-industrial period» «Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus» «Assessing the impact of satellite - based observations in sea surface temperature trends
surface climatological datasets» «
Estimating changes in global
temperature since the pre-industrial period» «Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global
surface warming hiatus» «Assessing the impact of satellite - based observations in sea surface temperature trends
surface warming hiatus» «Assessing the impact of satellite - based observations in sea
surface temperature trends
surface temperature trends»
«
Estimating changes in global
temperature since the pre-industrial period» «A reassessment of
temperature variations and
trends from global reanalyses and monthly
surface climatological datasets» «Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming
Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis» «Early onset of industrial - era warming across the oceans and continents»
MM04 failed to acknowledge other independent data supporting the instrumental thermometer - based land
surface temperature observations, such as satellite - derived
temperature trend estimates over land areas in the Northern Hemisphere (Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report, Chapter 2, Box 2.1, p. 106) that can not conceivably be subject to the non-climatic sources of bias considered by them.
These
estimates were cited in the IPCC 4AR, and compared to
surface temperature trends ranging from 0.15 to 0.18 °C per decade.
Uncertainties of
estimated trends in global - and regional - average sea -
surface temperature due to bias adjustments since the Second World War are found to be larger than uncertainties arising from the choice of analysis technique, indicating that this is an important source of uncertainty in analyses of historical sea -
surface temperatures.
The analysis shows that the leading contributor to variations in
surface temperature over the 20th century is a largely systematic upward
trend in most locations that appears to be consistent with
estimates of the effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
Detection / attribution assessments, using General Circulation Models (GCMs) or Energy Balance Models (EBMs) with geographical distributions of
surface temperature trends, suggest that the solar influence on climate is greater than would be anticipated from radiative forcing
estimates.
(3) Current
estimates of
surface and lower to mid-tropospheric
temperature trends are subject to a level of uncertainty that is almost as large as the apparent disparity between them.
The experts said there was no reliable way to make
estimates for
surface -
temperature trends in the first millennium A.D.
The range (due to different data sets) of the global mean tropospheric
temperature trend since 1979 is 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade based on satellite - based
estimates (Chapter 3) compared to a range of 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade for the global
surface warming.
We
estimate that the ACRIM upward
trend might have minimally contributed ∼ 10 — 30 % of the global
surface temperature warming over the period 1980 — 2002.
However, ~ 80 % of the total warming involved occurred after 1979, and as noted earlier since 1979 the
trend in HadCRUT4v4 matches that in the (adjusted) ERA - interim dataset, which
estimates purely
surface air
temperature, not a blend with SST, and has complete coverage.
Between 801 and 1800 ce, the
surface cooling
trend is qualitatively consistent with an independent synthesis of terrestrial
temperature reconstructions, and with a sea
surface temperature composite derived from an ensemble of climate model simulations using best
estimates of past external radiative forcings.
In summary, your argument pointing to the lacking statistical significance of the
temperature trend estimate for a time period is not sufficient empirical / statistical evidence or scientific justification for the claim that there was a «pause» of global
surface / troposphere warming.
Trends are
estimated over time periods, and depending on what the chosen length of the time period is, the
trend estimates for the
surface / troposphere
temperature and their statistical significance will vary.
On the time - varying
trend in global - mean
surface temperature ``... we showed that the rapidity of the warming in the late twentieth century was a result of concurrence of a secular warming
trend and the warming phase of a multidecadal (~ 65 - year period) oscillatory variation and we
estimated the contribution of the former to be about 0.08 deg C per decade since ~ 1980.»
I believe this gives an accurate
estimate of
surface temperature trends which most closely resembles the normal GISS LOTI.
The article also incorrectly equates instrumental
surface temperature data that Jones and CRU have assembled to
estimate the modern
surface temperature trends with paleoclimate data used to
estimate temperatures in past centuries, falsely asserting that the former «has been used to produce the «hockey stick graph»».
The space - time structure of natural climate variability needed to determine the optimal fingerprint pattern and the resultant signal - to - noise ratio of the detection variable is
estimated from several multi-century control simulations with different CGCMs and from instrumental data over the last 136 y. Applying the combined greenhouse gas - plus - aerosol fingerprint in the same way as the greenhouse gas only fingerprint in a previous work, the recent 30 - y
trends (1966 — 1995) of annual mean near
surface temperature are again found to represent a significant climate change at the 97.5 % confidence level.