CDIAC Climate Holdings Containing Temperature Data
Global Data Sets |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Set Name | Investigators | Data Type/Format | Period of Record |
| Global and hemispheric temperature anomalies - land and marine instrumental records | P.D. Jones et al. | Surface; annual and monthly time series of global and hemispheric means | 1856 - 2005 |
| NASA GISS Surface Temperature (GISTEMP) Analysis | J.E. Hansen et al. | Surface; annual time series of global, hemispheric, and zonal means | 1880 - 2006 |
| Monthly surface air temperature time series area-averaged over the 30-degree latitudinal belts of the globe | K.M. Lugina et al. | Surface; annual, seasonal, and monthly time series of global, hemispheric, and zonal means | 1881 - 2005 |
| Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN); Vs. 1 | R.S. Vose et al. | Surface stations; monthly means | Varies by station; through 1990 |
|
Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN); Vs. 2 (Note: the above link takes you to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center website.) |
R.S. Vose et al. | Surface stations; monthly means | Varies by station; some through most recent month |
| A Computer-Based Atlas of Global Instrumental Climate Data | R.S. Bradley et al. | Monthly, seasonal, and annual anomaly maps of surface temperature and 500 hPa geopotential heights | Temperature 1854 - 1991; 500 hPa heights 1946 - 1991 |
| Radiosonde Temperature Anomalies in the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere for the Globe, Hemispheres, and Latitude Zones | A.M. Sterin | Upper air; annual and seasonal time series of global, hemispheric, and zonal means | 1958 - 2005 |
| Global, hemispheric, and zonal temperature deviations derived from radiosonde records | J.K. Angell | Upper air; annual and seasonal time series of global, hemispheric, and zonal means | 1958 - 2005 |
| HadAT: globally gridded radiosonde temperature anomalies
(Note: the above link takes you to the U.K. Met. Office website.) |
P.W. Thorne et al. | Upper air; annual, seasonal, and monthly time series of global, zonal, and 5° latitude by 10° longitude grid box means | |
Regional Data Sets |
|||
| Data Set Name | Investigators | Data Type/Format | Period of Record |
| United States Historical Climatology Network | M. Menne et al. | Surface stations; monthly means and daily obs. | Varies by station; through 2005 |
| Alaskan Historical Climatology Network | T. Karl et al. | Surface stations; monthly means | Varies by station; through 1990 |
| Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data for 223 Former U.S.S.R. Stations | V. Razuvaev et al. | Surface stations; daily means | Varies by station; through 1989 |
| Six- and Three-Hourly Meteorological Observations from 223 U.S.S.R. Stations | V. Razuvaev et al. | Surface stations; 6- and 3-hourly obs. | Varies by station; through 2000 |
| Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People's Republic of China | S. Tao et al. | Surface stations; monthly means | Varies by station; through 1993 |
|
Area Averaged Temperature Time Series for China, India, and the United States
(Note: the above link takes you to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center website.) |
C. Bruce Baker | Surface; annual and monthly time series | 1901 - 1998 |
| A Databank of Antarctic Surface Temperature and Pressure Data | P. D. Jones and P. A. Reid | Surface stations; monthly means | Varies by station; through 1999 |
| Historic isotopic temperature record from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica | J.R. Petit et al. | Time series; proxy temperatures from ice core | 420,000 years BP - present |
| Deuterium Record in an Ice Core from Dome C, Antarctica | J. Jouzel | Time series; proxy temperatures from ice core | 740,000 years BP - present |
08/2007