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I would really like to see a graph of the mean temperature of the hottest month in each year, so we can see how this trend compares to noise.
by leni536 11y ago
I would really like to see a graph of the mean temperature of the hottest month in each year, so we can see how this trend compares to noise.
- bjwbell 11y agoIt's difficult even with that. The mean temperature is calculated via inference (obviously you can't have a thermometer everywhere). And there's occasional adjustments to how the global temp. is inferred. The NOAA recently did one [0]. They have a nice comparison list of the ten warmest years [1]. [0] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/page-1/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag... [1] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/page-3 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag...
- leni536 11y agoThat's interesting, should be hard to not introduce a systematic error.
- bjwbell 11y agoThat's why I prefer the data from satellite measurements. There's a couple for surface temperature at http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ & http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature.