Annual and seasonal global temperature anomalies in the troposphere and low stratosphere, 1958 - Summer 1986

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/538052· OSTI ID:538052

Angell, J K; Korshover, J ^[1]; Boden, T A ^[2]

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1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD (United States). Air Resources Lab.
2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

Surface temperatures and thickness-derived temperatures from a network of 63 well-distributed radiosonde stations have been used to estimate global and zonal annual and seasonal temperatures anomalies for the period 1958 through the summer of 1986. These anomaly estimates were made using a 1958-1977 reference period mean. Anomaly estimates are provided for surface, troposphere (850-300 mb), tropopause layer (300-100 mb), and low stratosphere (100-50 mb); (100-30mb) layers and for polar (60{degrees}-90{degrees}), temperate (30{degrees}-60{degrees}), subtropical (10{degrees}-30{degrees}), and equatorial (10{degrees}N - 10{degrees}S) zones, as well as the tropics, both hemispheres, and the world.

• 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: 538052
• Report Number(s): NDP-008/R1; ON: DE98000630; TRN: 97:005507
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1987
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
STRATOSPHERE
TEMPERATURE MONITORING
TROPOSPHERE
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
CLIMATIC CHANGE