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Land Surface Air Temperature
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• CRUTEM3 

  Land surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990:
  
  CRUTEM3 (Brohan et al. 2006, blue)
  
  Brohan, P., J.J. Kennedy, I. Harris, S.F.B. Tett and P.D. Jones,
  Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature
  changes: a new dataset from 1850. J. Geophys. Res, 111, D12106,
  doi:10.1029/2005JD006548.
  
  http://hadobs.metoffice.com/crutem3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual

• NASA/GISS 

  Land surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990:
  
  NASA GISS (Hansen et al. 2001, green)
  
  Hansen, J., R. Ruedy, M. Sato, M. Imhoff, W. Lawrence, D. Easterling,
  T. Peterson, and T. Karl, 2001: A closer look at United States and
  global surface temperature change. J. Geophys. Res. 106, 23947-23963.
  
  http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt

• Lugina et al. 

  Land surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990:
  
  Lugina et al. (2005, red).
  
  Lugina, K.M., P.Ya. Groisman, K.Ya. Vinnikov, V.V. Koknaeva,
  and N.A. Speranskaya 2005: Monthly surface air temperature time
  series area-averaged over the 30-degree latitudinal belts of the
  globe, 1881-2004. In: Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change.
  Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
  US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN,
  
  http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/lugina/lugina.html

• NOAA/NCDC 

  Land surface air temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990:
  
  NOAA NCDC (Smith et al. 2008, grey)
  
  Smith, T.M., R.W. Reynolds, Thomas C. Peterson, and Jay Lawrimore
  2008: Improvements to NOAA's Historical Merged Land-Ocean Surface
  Temperature Analysis (1880-2006). Journal  of Climate, 21, 2283-2293.
  
  http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.html
  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/index.html
  
  NOAA_ERSST_V3 data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado,
  USA, from their Web site at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/

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