nca3-gistemp-r2010

GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)

Published in 2010. Version N/A.

The NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with monthly resolution for the period since 1880, when a reasonably global distribution of meteorological stations was established. Input data for the analysis, collected by many national meteorological services around the world, is the unadjusted data of the Global Historical Climatology Network (Peterson and Vose, 1997) except that the USHCN station records included were replaced by a later corrected version. These data were augmented by SCAR data from Antarctic stations. Documentation of our analysis is provided by Hansen et al. (1999), with several modifications described by Hansen et al. (2001). The GISS analysis is updated monthly. The data is available on an equal area grid. NASA provides code to read it onto a 2x2 grid. They have two smoothing levels available for their updated data: 250km and 1200km smoothing. They make available a land only version and a version which includes the hadISST (post Dec 1981) and NOAA OI V2 for data over the oceans. There ARE missing data values.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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This dataset was released on October 29, 1981.

The temporal extent of this dataset is 1880-01-01T00:00:00/2012-12-31T23:59:59.

• 1 article was derived from this dataset : Global Surface Temperature Change.
• 1 figure was derived from this dataset : figure nca3 33.14.
• 2 images were derived from this dataset : image 40d9d5ef, image 108f029d.

When citing this dataset please refer to Hansen, J., R. Ruedy, M. Sato, and K. Lo, 2010: Global surface temperature change, Rev. Geophys., 48, RG4004, doi:10.1029/2010RG000345.

Attributes : Combined Land-Surface Air and Sea-Surface Water Temperature Anomalies (Land-Ocean Temperature Index, LOTI): -Global-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Northern Hemisphere-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Southern Hemisphere-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Zonal annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent completed year Means Based on Land-Surface Air Temperature Anomalies Only (Meteorological Station Data, dTs): -Global-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Northern Hemisphere-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Southern Hemisphere-mean monthly, seasonal, and annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent month -Zonal annual means, 1880-present, updated through most recent complete calendar year