Global land surface air temperature dynamics since 1880

Wang, Jinfeng, Xu, Chengdong, Hu, Maogui, Li, Qingxiang, Yan, Zhongwei and Jones, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493 (2018) Global land surface air temperature dynamics since 1880. International Journal of Climatology, 38 (S1). e466-e474. ISSN 0899-8418

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Abstract

The geographical extent, magnitude, and uncertainty of global climate change have been widely discussed and have critical policy implications at both global and local scales. In this study, a new analysis of annual mean global land surface air temperature since 1880 was generated, which has greater coverage and lower uncertainty than previous distributions. The Biased Sentinel Hospitals Areal Disease Estimation (BSHADE) method, used in this study, makes a best linear unbiased estimation (BLUE) when a sample is small and biased to a spatially heterogeneous population. For the period of 1901–2010, the warming trend was found to be 0.109 °C decade−1 with 95% confidence intervals between 0.081 °C and 0.137 °C. Additionally, warming exhibited different spatial patterns in different periods. In the early 20th century (1923–1950), warming occurred mainly in the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, whereas in the most recent decades (1977–2014), warming was more spatially extensive across the global land surface. Compared with other common methods, the difference in results appears in the areas with few stations and in the early years, when stations had sparse coverage and were unevenly distributed. Validation, which was performed using real data that simulated the historic situation, showed a smaller error in the BSHADE estimate than in other methods. This study produced a new database with greater coverage and less uncertainty that will improve the understanding of climate dynamics on the Earth since 1880, especially in isolated areas and early periods, and will benefit the assessment of climate-change-related issues, such as the effects of human activities.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	global,land surface air temperature dynamics,biased observations,best linear unbiased estimate (blue),sdg 3 - good health and well-being,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
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 > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Related URLs:	http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/joc.5384
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2018 13:30
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:14
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65928
DOI:	10.1002/joc.5384

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