Global surface air temperature variations during the twentieth century: Part 1, spatial, temporal and seasonal details

Jones, PD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493 and Briffa, KR (1992) Global surface air temperature variations during the twentieth century: Part 1, spatial, temporal and seasonal details. The Holocene, 2 (2). pp. 165-179. ISSN 1477-0911

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Abstract

In Part 1, we review the uncertainties associated with combining land and marine instrumental records to produce regional-average series. The surface air temperature of the world has warmed 0.5°C since the middle of the nineteenth century. The warming in the northern Hemisphere only occurred in winter, spring and autumn. Summers are now no warmer than in the 1860s and 1870s. The same half-degree warming is seen in all seasons in the Southern Hemisphere. Spatial patterns of temperature anomalies during two warm decades, the 1930s and 1980s, all vary from season to season. Temperatures during the 1980s were by far the warmest in the last 140 years.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User: Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2011 14:47
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2023 23:57
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33761
DOI: 10.1177/095968369200200208

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