Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe

Dataset · Sat Jun 28 04:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003· OSTI ID:1389300

Lugina, K. M. ^[1]; Groisman, P. Ya. ^[2]; Vinnikov, K. Ya ^[3]; Koknaeva, V. V. ^[4]; Speranskaya, N. A. ^[4]

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1. St. Petersburg State University; OSTi
2. National Climatic Data Center
3. University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
4. State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

The mean monthly and annual values of surface air temperature compiled by Lugina et al. have been taken mainly from the World Weather Records, Monthly Climatic Data for the World, and Meteorological Data for Individual Years over the Northern Hemisphere Excluding the USSR. These published records were supplemented with information from different national publications. In the original archive, after removal of station records believed to be nonhomogeneous or biased, 301 and 265 stations were used to determine the mean temperature for the Northern and Southern hemispheres, respectively. The new version of the station temperature archive (used for evaluation of the zonally-averaged temperatures) was created in 1995. The change to the archive was required because data from some stations became unavailable for analyses in the 1990s. During this process, special care was taken to secure homogeneity of zonally averaged time series. When a station (or a group of stations) stopped reporting, a "new" station (or group of stations) was selected in the same region, and its data for the past 50 years were collected and added to the archive. The processing (area-averaging) was organized in such a way that each time series from a new station spans the reference period (1951-1975) and the years thereafter. It was determined that the addition of the new stations had essentially no effect on the zonally-averaged values for the pre-1990 period.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/lugina/lugina.html

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1389300
• Report Number(s): osti:1389300; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.003; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Meteorological Data for Individual Years over the Northern Hemisphere Excluding the USSR
Monthly Climatic Data for the World
TRENDS-TEMPERATURE
World Weather Records
mean monthly and annual values of surface air temperature
monthly
monthly surface air temperature
warmest years
year