Growing the African land surface air temperature record:by assimilation of short-segment time series

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Taylor, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3473-3478, Osborn, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-6799, Jones, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Lister, David, Wallis, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2475-0899 and Harris, Ian (2022) Growing the African land surface air temperature record:by assimilation of short-segment time series. In: Growing the African land surface air temperature record. Figshare.

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Abstract

● Africa is a climate-sensitive continent impacted by anthropogenic global warming. Its instrumental record helps provide important spatial coverage for NWP validation and the monitoring of climate change. ● However, CLIMAT reports of surface temperature observations from Africa suggest only ~50% of those expected are being incorporated in some global temperature databases. One main reason is short-segments that do not span the 1961-1990 baseline needed to calculate anomaly time series. ● To allow for the immediate incorporation of short-segment data we develop a method that refers to historic trends in 20th Century Reanalysis (20CRv3) to estimate the baseline. ● We evaluate the impact of inclusion of the ‘missing’ stations on the continent’s temperature anomaly record.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
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 > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2024 15:40
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2024 01:21
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94848
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14748588.v1

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