Surface air temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere: The Russian dataset

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/539833· OSTI ID:539833

Robock, A ^[1]; Borzenkova, I I; Gurza, G V; Vinnikov, K Ya ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Meteorology
2. State Hydrological Institute, Leningrad (Russian Federation)

The existence of a Russian surface temperature dataset became known to Western scientists when Budyko (1969) showed the secular variation of temperature and direct radiation for the Northern Hemisphere. His results were derived from maps of monthly mean surface air temperature anomalies compiled at the Main Geophysical Observatory. These maps covered the period 1881 to 1960 and were prepared for the purpose of monthly and seasonal forecasting, with a goal of finding patterns in monthly departures from normal temperatures.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 539833
• Report Number(s): NDP-015; ON: DE98000678; TRN: 97:005578
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Mar 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
58 GEOSCIENCES
CLIMATES
DATA COMPILATION
SURFACE AIR
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION