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Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe
Abstract
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)more »
- Authors:
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- St. Petersburg State University; OSTi
- National Climatic Data Center
- University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- osti:1389300; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.003; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Research Org.:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- Subject:
- 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
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1389300
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003
Citation Formats
Lugina, K. M., Groisman, P. Ya., Vinnikov, K. Ya, Koknaeva, V. V., and Speranskaya, N. A. Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe. United States: N. p., 2003.
Web. doi:10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003.
Lugina, K. M., Groisman, P. Ya., Vinnikov, K. Ya, Koknaeva, V. V., & Speranskaya, N. A. Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003
Lugina, K. M., Groisman, P. Ya., Vinnikov, K. Ya, Koknaeva, V. V., and Speranskaya, N. A. 2003.
"Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1389300. Pub date:Sat Jun 28 04:00:00 UTC 2003
@article{osti_1389300,
title = {Monthly Surface Air Temperature Time Series Area-Averaged Over the 30-Degree Latitudinal Belts of the Globe},
author = {Lugina, K. M. and Groisman, P. Ya. and Vinnikov, K. Ya and Koknaeva, V. V. and Speranskaya, N. A.},
abstractNote = {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},
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year = {Sat Jun 28 04:00:00 UTC 2003},
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