Climate Indicators - 2009
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Stratospheric Temperature
Stratospheric Temperature
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- HadAT2

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: HadAT2 (Thorne et al. 2005, black), Thorne PW, Parker DE, Tett SFB, Jones PD, McCarthy M, Coleman H, Brohan P. 2005. Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002. J. Geophys. Res . 110: D18105, DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005753 data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- IUK

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: IUK (Sherwood et al. 2008, yellow). Sherwood SC, Meyer CL, Allen RJ, Titchner HA. 2008. Robust tropospheric warming revealed by iteratively homogenized radiosonde data. J. Climate 21: 5336-5350. data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- RAOBCORE

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: RAOBCORE (Haimberger et al. 2007, orange), Haimberger L. 2007. Homogenization of radiosonde temperature time series using innovation statistics. J. Climate 20: 1377-1403. data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- RATPAC

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: RATPAC (Free et al. 2005, green), Free M, Seidel DJ, Angell JK, Lanzante JR, Durre I, Peterson TC. 2005. Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate (RATPAC): A new dataset of large-area anomaly time series. J. Geophys. Res. 110: D22101-, DOI:10.1029/2005JD006169 data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- RICH

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: RICH (Haimberger et al. 2008, grey), Haimberger L, Tavolato C, Sperka S. 2008. Towards elimination of the warm bias in historic radiosonde temperature records - some new results from a comprehensive intercomparison of upper air data. J. Climate 21: 4587-4606. data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- RSS

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: RSS (Mears and Wentz 2009a,b blue), Mears CA, Wentz FJ. 2009a. Construction of the RSS V3.2 lower tropospheric temperature records from the MSU and AMSU microwave sounders. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech . (submitted). Mears CA, Wentz FJ. 2009b. Construction of the Remote Sensing Systems V3.2 atmospheric temperature records from the MSU and AMSU microwave sounders. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. 26: 1040-1056. data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- STAR

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: STAR data set (Zou et al. 2009, light grey). Zou, C.-Z., M. Gao, M.Goldberg, 2009: Error structure and atmospheric temperature trends in observations of the microwave sounding unit, J. Climate, 22, 1661-1681. doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2233.1 data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
- UAH

Global lower stratospheric MSU-equivalent temperature anomalies relative to 1979 from satellites and radiosondes: UAH (Christy et al. 2003 red), Christy JR, Spencer RW, Norris WB, Braswell WD, Parker DE. 2003. Error estimates of version 5.0 of MSU-AMSU bulk atmospheric temperatures. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 20: 613-629. data from BAMS State of the Climate 2008 courtesy of Holly Titchner.
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Note: For each dataset, one value is plotted for each year in the period of record. For datasets with multiple values in one year, an average is calculated for one annual value. Missing annual values are interpolated between non-missing values.


