JISAO data
NCDC global historical climatology network (GHCN) temperature, 1880-present

Introduction and analyses | Data
The data:
  • netCDF:
    At JISAO, this file is /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_land_temp/ncdc/satanomncdc18802002.nc .
    There are also minimum temperature and maximum temperature data sets although the coverage is much less than for the monthly mean.
    /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_land_temp/ncdc/samintanomncdc18802002.nc .
    /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_land_temp/ncdc/samaxtanomncdc18802002.nc .
    Data for 1880 through September 2002. I was unable to obtain permission from NCDC to put these data set on the WWW.
  • ASCII: NCDC has more up to date values.
    The National Climatic Data Center produces monthly global anomalies fields from version 2 of the global historical climatology network surface air temperature data. This data is available through last month. The anomalies are with respect to 1961-90. Jay Lawrimore of NCDC is the contact person for this data set ( Jay.Lawrimore@noaa.gov ).

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    There are around 800 land boxes, and the sampling ranges from less than 200 in 1880, increases monotonically to values in excess of 600 for 1950-90, and values greater than 500 from 1990-present.

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    Trend for 1950 - September 2002. Generally increased temperatures everywhere with trends in excess of 0.5 degrees C / decade in the Northern Hemisphere mid- to high-latitudes.

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    Global mean temperature anomaly for 1880 - September 2002. NCDC has up-to-date global mean temperatures on its WWW page.

    References:
    There isn't a published reference for this data set at this writing. Check the NCDC WWW site.
    November 2002
    Todd Mitchell ( mitchell@atmos.washington.edu )
    JISAO data