An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020)

Jones, P. D.; Raper, S. C. B.; Cherry, B. S. G.; Goodess, C. M.; Wigley, T. M. L.; Santer, B.; Kelly, P. M.; Bradley, R. S.; Diaz, H. F.

doi:10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp020

Title: An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020)

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This NDP presents land-based monthly surface-air-temperature anomalies (departures from a 1951-1970 reference period mean) on a 5° latitude by 10° longitude global grid. Monthly surface-air-temperature anomalies (departures from a 1957-1975 reference period mean) for the Antarctic (grid points from 65°S to 85°S) are presented in a similar way as a separate data set. The data were derived primarily from the World Weather Records and from the archives of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office. This long-term record of temperature anomalies may be used in studies addressing possible greenhouse-gas-induced climate changes. To date, the data have been employed in producing regional, hemispheric, and global time series for determining whether recent (i.e., post-1900) warming trends have taken place. The present updated version of this data set is identical to the earlier version for all records from 1851-1978 except for the addition of the Antarctic surface-air-temperature anomalies beginning in 1957. Beginning with the 1979 data, this package differs from the earlier version in several ways. Erroneous data for some sites have been corrected after a review of the actual station temperature data, and inconsistencies in the representation of missing values have been removed. For some grid locations, data have been added from stations thatmore »« less

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Jones, P. D.; Raper, S. C. B.; Cherry, B. S. G.; Goodess, C. M.; Wigley, T. M. L.; Santer, B.; Kelly, P. M.; Bradley, R. S.; Diaz, H. F.

University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit; OSTI
University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit
University of Massachusetts
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories

Publication Date:: Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2018

Other Number(s):: osti:1394921; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP020; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp020

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; ELEV; ENDYEAR; FRYEAR; ID; LAT; LONG; Land-based Stations; NATION; NDP-020; QCCODE; STATION; STYEAR; Surface Air Temperature Anomaly; TYPE; Temperature Records; dist; lat; long; sta; temp

OSTI Identifier:: 1394921

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp020

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                    Jones, P. D., Raper, S. C. B., Cherry, B. S. G., Goodess, C. M., Wigley, T. M. L., Santer, B., Kelly, P. M., Bradley, R. S., and Diaz, H. F. An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020).  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Jones, P. D., Raper, S. C. B., Cherry, B. S. G., Goodess, C. M., Wigley, T. M. L., Santer, B., Kelly, P. M., Bradley, R. S., & Diaz, H. F. An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp020

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                    Jones, P. D., Raper, S. C. B., Cherry, B. S. G., Goodess, C. M., Wigley, T. M. L., Santer, B., Kelly, P. M., Bradley, R. S., and Diaz, H. F. 2018.  
"An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp020.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1394921. Pub date:Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2018

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@article{osti_1394921,

  title        = {An Updated Global Grid Point Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Data Set: 1851-1990 (revised 1991) (NDP-020)},

  author       = {Jones, P. D. and Raper, S. C. B. and Cherry, B. S. G. and Goodess, C. M. and Wigley, T. M. L. and Santer, B. and Kelly, P. M. and Bradley, R. S. and Diaz, H. F.},

  abstractNote = {This NDP presents land-based monthly surface-air-temperature anomalies (departures from a 1951-1970 reference period mean) on a 5° latitude by 10° longitude global grid. Monthly surface-air-temperature anomalies (departures from a 1957-1975 reference period mean) for the Antarctic (grid points from 65°S to 85°S) are presented in a similar way as a separate data set. The data were derived primarily from the World Weather Records and from the archives of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office. This long-term record of temperature anomalies may be used in studies addressing possible greenhouse-gas-induced climate changes. To date, the data have been employed in producing regional, hemispheric, and global time series for determining whether recent (i.e., post-1900) warming trends have taken place. The present updated version of this data set is identical to the earlier version for all records from 1851-1978 except for the addition of the Antarctic surface-air-temperature anomalies beginning in 1957. Beginning with the 1979 data, this package differs from the earlier version in several ways. Erroneous data for some sites have been corrected after a review of the actual station temperature data, and inconsistencies in the representation of missing values have been removed. For some grid locations, data have been added from stations that had not contributed to the original set. Data from satellites have also been used to correct station records where large discrepancies were evident. The present package also extends the record by adding monthly surface-air-temperature anomalies for the Northern (grid points from 85°N to 0°) and Southern (grid points from 5°S to 60°S) Hemispheres for 1985-1990. In addition, this updated package presents the monthly-mean-temperature records for the individual stations that were used to produce the set of gridded anomalies. The periods of record vary by station. Northern Hemisphere data have been corrected for inhomogeneities, while Southern Hemisphere data are presented in uncorrected form.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ndps/ndp020.html},

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