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Thorne, P. W., Donat, M. G., Dunn, R. J. H., Williams, C. N., Alexander, L. V., Caesar, J., Durre, I., Harris, I., Hausfather, Z., Jones, P.D. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Menne, M. J., Rohde, R., Vose, R. S., Davy, R., Klein-Tank, A. M. G., Lawrimore, J. H., Peterson, T. C. and Rennie, J. J.
(2016)
Reassessing changes in diurnal temperature range: Intercomparison and evaluation of existing global data set estimates.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (10).
5138–5158.
ISSN 2169-897X
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Abstract
Changes in diurnal temperature range (DTR) over global land areas are compared from a broad range of independent data sets. All data sets agree that global-mean DTR has decreased significantly since 1950, with most of that decrease occurring over 1960–1980. The since-1979 trends are not significant, with inter-data set disagreement even over the sign of global changes. Inter-data set spread becomes greater regionally and in particular at the grid box level. Despite this, there is general agreement that DTR decreased in North America, Europe, and Australia since 1951, with this decrease being partially reversed over Australia and Europe since the early 1980s. There is substantive disagreement between data sets prior to the middle of the twentieth century, particularly over Europe, which precludes making any meaningful conclusions about DTR changes prior to 1950, either globally or regionally. Several variants that undertake a broad range of approaches to postprocessing steps of gridding and interpolation were analyzed for two of the data sets. These choices have a substantial influence in data sparse regions or periods. The potential of further insights is therefore inextricably linked with the efficacy of data rescue and digitization for maximum and minimum temperature series prior to 1950 everywhere and in data sparse regions throughout the period of record. Over North America, station selection and homogeneity assessment is the primary determinant. Over Europe, where the basic station data are similar, the postprocessing choices are dominant. We assess that globally averaged DTR has decreased since the middle twentieth century but that this decrease has not been linear.
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| Additional Information: | ©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA. This article is published with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| 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: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2016 15:00 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2023 12:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59092 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/2015JD024584 |
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