Indicators of Warming from Multiple Data Sets

Figure 34.3

This figure appears in chapter 34 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/appendices/faqs/graphics/indicators-warming-multiple-data-sets

This figure summarizes some of the many datasets documenting changes in the Earth’s climate, all of which are consistent with a warming planet. In all figures except the lower two in the right column, data are plotted relative to averages over the period 1960-1999 (Figure source: updated from Kennedy et al. 20102).

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This figure was created on August 20, 2013.

This figure was derived from State of the Climate in 2009 .

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