Not exact matches
There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic
warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the
average value over the 90 - degree sectors.
If long - term global
warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C elsius above preindustrial
values,
average annual per - capita emissions in industrialized nations will have to be reduced by around 80 - 95 % below 1990 levels by 2050.
There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic
warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the
average value over the 90 - degree sectors.
One solution which has different assumptions than what is used to define the HadCRUT4 global
values, would be to calculate the zonal means first and then area weight those — which assumes that missing data
warms at the same rate as the local zonal
average as opposed to the global means.
It stands to reason that the oceans haven't been that
warm in a while but since the
average temperature of the whole mass of water is so dependent on circulation (it's only the surface temperature that's constrained by its interactions with the atmosphere and space), I suppose a plausible history of that particular
value would be very hard to reconstruct.
In order to make the trends comparable despite the different periods and CO2 increases, they were divided by the globally
averaged warming trend, i.e. all
values above 1 show an above -
average warming (orange - red),
values below 1 a below -
average warming, negative
values a cooling.
In the North Atlantic, the measured
values differ markedly from the
average global
warming: the subpolar Atlantic (an area about half the size of the USA, south of Greenland) has hardly
warmed up and in some cases even cooled down, contrary to the global
warming trend.
My
value of — 0,32 K may be
warmer than your -0,37 K, because I use the trend
values in 2008 to get the number, not an
average value?
For example, anomalies are correlated over fairly large distances: If it was
warmer than
average in NYC this year, it was also likely
warmer than
average in Boston and Montreal and Philadelphia even though the actual
average value in this different cities might be fairly different.
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Each SCC estimate is the
average of numerous iterations (10,000 in the EPA's assessment, which we reproduce here) of the model using different potential
values for climate sensitivity (how much
warming a doubling of CO2 will generate).
Clearly, to use a single
value (the global
average annual
average surface temperature trend) to characterize global
warming is a naive approach and is misleading policymakers on the actual complexity of the climate system.
Only over many (five or more in my judgment) decades do these variations
average out well enough to make these temperature
values potentially useful for the determination of an indicator for
warming.
The figure shows (with colored circles) the
value of the trend in observed global
average surface temperatures in lengths ranging from 10 to 64 years and in all cases ending in 2014 (the so - called «
warmest year on record»).
One should not forget that the «global
warming» is an
average value.
Nationally, the
average minimum (low) temperature was 43.1 °F, the
warmest on record, exceeding the previous
value (42.9 °F in 2012) by about 0.2 °F.
Come to think of it, if he really believes the «doubled»
warming projections from the MIT study that his is so keen on touting, he ought to man - up and proffer a 0.50 °C
average temperature rise during the next decade as a reasonable 50 - 50
value.
While the trend is not statistically significant, the central
value is positive, meaning the
average surface temperature has most likely
warmed over this period.
If this month is a
warm month, than all other fill
values in past years for this month get bumped up a little because this months
warm observation increased the
average over time.
This
value of 375 CO2 - e is the actual forcing that is currently acting to
warm the oceans, melt ice, and cause gradual upwards changes in
average air temperature.
For example, a reported global
value of +0.69 °C ± 0.09 °C indicates that the most likely
value is 0.69 °C
warmer than the long - term
average, but, conservatively, one can be confident that it falls somewhere between 0.60 °C and 0.78 °C above the long - term
average.
And thirdly, a simple empirical adjustment to the
average of a large family of models, based upon observed changes in temperature, yields a
warming range of 1.3 - 3.0 °C, with a central
value of 1.9 °C.
Current models suggest ice mass losses increase with temperature more rapidly than gains due to increased precipitation and that the surface mass balance becomes negative (net ice loss) at a global
average warming (relative to pre-industrial
values) in excess of 1.9 to 4.6 °C.
To get an «
average» temperature, scientists take the
warmest and the coolest temperatures in a day, and calculate the temperature that is exactly in the middle of those high and low
values.
Taken together, the
average of the
warmest times during the middle Pliocene presents a view of the equilibrium state of a globally
warmer world, in which atmospheric CO2 concentrations (estimated to be between 360 to 400 ppm) were likely higher than pre-industrial
values (Raymo and Rau, 1992; Raymo et al., 1996), and in which geologic evidence and isotopes agree that sea level was at least 15 to 25 m above modern levels (Dowsett and Cronin, 1990; Shackleton et al., 1995), with correspondingly reduced ice sheets and lower continental aridity (Guo et al., 2004).
These
values are significantly lower than the
average warming of 0.02 °C / year observed in the previous thirty years 1970 - 2000.
These
values mean that while 2015 will be
warmer than
average, we can be quite certain that the year will not be Australia's
warmest on record — which occurred in 2013 with a +1.2 °C anomaly.
... The equilibrium global
average warming expected if carbon dioxide concentrations were to be sustained at 550 ppm is likely to be in the range 2 - 4.5 °C above pre-industrial
values, with a best estimate of about 3 °C.»
«The
value of the
average warming rate is calculated to be 1.7817 degrees Celsius per century» (last line of introduction, also shown on last line of the table.