!"#$%&' A Study of Upper Air Temperature Change ==== N==!"#$%&'() !"#$% ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "!"#$%&' A Study of Upper Air Temperature Change ==== N==!"#$%&'() !"#$% ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH"

Transcription

1 ==== O = R OMMS V!"#$% ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Vol.2, No.5 September, 2006!" (2006) !"#$%&' A Study of Upper Air Temperature Change!!"#$ %!&'( NMMMUN =!"#$%&'()*+,-./ !"#$%&'()*+,!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,-./012!"#$%&1979!"#$%&'()!"#$%&!"#$%&'()!*+,!!"!"!"#P423====!"#A = ====!"#$%&'()*+$,-./0!"#$% IPCC!"#$%& 1861J2000!"#$%&'()* !"8 km!!"#$%&'()*+,- 0.1L 10 a 1!!"#$%!"#!"#!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'()*+,-./01!!"#$%&'()*+,-./!"#$%&'()*+, N==!"#$%&'() ====!"#$%&!"#$%&'(!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,!"#$%&'()*+,-./01$2!!"#$%&'()*+,-./!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&!"#$%!"#$%&'()!!"#$%&'(!"!#!" ====!!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%&'!"#$%&'()!"#$!"#$%&' 2 ====E1F=NCDCNational Climatic Data Center, USA!"#$%&'()!"#$!"#$%&'( ===E2F GFDLGeophysical Fluid Dynamics!2006J03J21=!"2006J04J21!"#$%&$'!"#$%&'()01!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'()*(+ ==========!"#$%&'()*+2005DKA ! 1962J!!"#$%!&'!"!" ENSO!" K= pmzhai@cma.gov.cn

2 R!W!"#$%&' 229 Laboratory!"#$%&'Metadata!"#$%&' 3 ====E3F=TAMUTexas A&M University!!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123!"#$ 2 ====E4F=UKMOUK Met. Office 1979!"#$%MSU!"#$%&' 4 ====E5F UAHUniversity of Alabama Huntsville!"#$%&'()*+,-.)/012!"#$%&' 5 ====E6F!Zhai et al. 6 7!!"#$%&'()*+,-./*012!"#$!"#$%&'()*+, ====NCDC!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'!"#$%&'!"#$!"!"#$!"#$%!"#$%&'!"#$%&'()!"#$%&'!"#$%!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'(!"#$%!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'()*+,-.!"#$%&'()*+,-./012!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&!"#$ ENSO!"#!!"!"#$%&'(!)*+,-!"#$%&'($%)!"#$%!"#$!"!#$%&'($)*!!"#$%&'()*+,!"#!"#$!"#$!"#$%&"#'()*+!!"#$%&'(#)*+,!"#!"#$%&'( O==!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'()*+,!"#$%!"#$%&'()*+,!"#$%!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'(!"!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%&'()*+,-.!"#$%&'()*+,-./%012!"!"#$%&'()*+,-./!"#$%&'()* ====!!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'(LKSAngellIGRA HadRTHadATI=RATPAC LKS 8J9 1997! 87!"#!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#!"#$%&'()!"#$%&' 1979J1997!"#$!"#$%&'( Angell 10!"#$%&!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*+,-./!!"#$IGRAThe Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive!"#$% 11! NRMM!"#$%&'()*+!"#!"#$HadRT!"#$%&'()!"#$%&'(#$ 3!"#!"#$%Thorne et al. 12 LKS!"#$GUAN 477!"#$%&'85030 hpa 9!"#!"#$%&' 676!"#$%!"#$%&'()* HadATRATPAC Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate 13 LKS!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,-%./01!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&!'() RATPAC-A 1958J1995!"# LKS !"#$IGRA!"#!"#!"#$%&'()*=RATPAC-B!"# OKN==! ====!"#$1950!!" OKO==! ====!"#$%&'()*+, -EMSUF

3 ==== 230!"#$% =OMMS !"#$%&' AMSU!"#$!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'()!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*+!"#!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123!"#$%&'()*#+,-./-!"#$%"&"LT!!"#2!!4 2!"T 2 75%80%!!"15%!"#"ip5% 10%!" 4!"T 4!! LS! 2! T 2LT!"#$%& Cristy et al. 14 UAHMears et al. 15J16 RSSVinnikov et al. 17 Grody et al. 18 VG1 VG2! OKP==!" ====!"#$%&'()*+,-./01!"NCEP/NCARNRAKalnay et al. 19 Kistler et al. 20 FI=NCEP-2= Kanamitsu et al. 21 ERA15/ERA-40Uppala et al. 22!"#!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,!"#$%&'()*+,-.!" 23J24!"#$%&'(!"# P==!"#$%&'( ====!!"#$%&'() MSU!"#$%&'()*+,-./IPCC!"#$2001!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'!"!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,-./!!"#$%&'!"#$%&'()!"#$%!"#$%&'(!"#=1958!"#$%&%'()* 1979J2000!"#$%&%'(!"#1958!!"#"$%&!"#$!J0.20J1.10 K/10 a!"#$%&'()*+ UKMO 4 NOAA! 10 RIHMI!" 25!"#$%1958J1978!"#$%& J0.03J0.08 K/10aNCEP 26!"#1958J1978!"#$#!"#$ ====Free et al. 13 RATPAC!"#!"#$%!"!"#$%&!"#$%&'()!"#$%& 1960J J2004 =IGRA!"#$!"1979J2004!"!"#"$%&'()*!" 0.10 K/10 a!"#$%&' J0.5 J0.9 K/10 a!"#$%&j1.0 K/10 a!1979j J2004!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%!"#$%&'!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*!"#$%!"#$%&'()*Thorne et al. 12 HadAT!"#$1958J2002!"#$!"#$%&'()*!"#$!"#$%&'()*+!" 1979!!"#$%&'()*+! ====!"#$%&'()*+HadAT UAHRSS!" 1!" 1!"! "#$%&'()* 1a!"#$%&'()*+,-.!/ 1979!"#$%&HadAT!!UAH RSS! "#$!"#=E1bF=1958J1978!!"#$!%&'!"#1979!! "#$%&'()*+HadAT EF 1958!"#$#%&'()*+!1979!!"#$%&!" #$!%&'()*+,-./!"#$%& RSSHadAT UAH!" RSS HadAT ====!"#$%&'(!"#$

4 R 231!"#$%&'()*#$%+,- 14J16!"#$%&'()*"+ 1979J2004 MSU/AMSU!"#!"#T 4 J0.32J0.47 K/ 10 a!"#$t K/10 a!"#$%&rss UAH 0.1 K/10 a!"# NOAA!"#$%&!VG2RSS UAHRSS VG2!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&'!" RSS!"# UAH 0.1 K/10 at 2 15%!"#"$!"#$%&'()*+, ====!"#$%&'()*+,-NRA 1978!"#$%&'()*+,-+.!"#$%&' 22 ERA NRA!"#$%&'(!"#$%&Jones et al !"#$%&'()*+,- ERA!"#$%&'()* ====!"#$%&'()*+,!!"#$!"#$%UAH RSS!!"#$%&'()*+, 1979J1997!"#$%&!"#$!"#!"#$%&'! RSS Seidel et al. 26 5!"#$ 3!"#$%&!"#$ ENSOQBO!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123!"#$%&'()*+, HadRT LKS!"#"$%&%'()*+,-./ 0.1K/10 a!"#$%&'()*+!"#$%&'()*+,-. Q=== ====!"#$%&'()*+,-.!"#$%&'()"*+,-./0!"#$%&'()*+,-.!!"#$%&'()*+*,-./0123!"#!"!"#!" 1979!!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&'( )!"#$%!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*!"#$%&'()*+,-./012!"#$%&'()*+!"#!"#$% &!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'()*+,()#$!" ====!!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'()*+,LKSAngell IRGAHadRTHadATRATPAC!"!"#$ ====!"#$%&'(!"#$%&!"#$%&'()*+,!"!"#$%&'()*!"#$%!"#$%&'()*+,UAH RSS!"!"#$%&'(!"#$%&'()*+!"#$!"#$%&"#!'()*+,!!!"#$%&'()*+,-./!"#$%&!"!"#$%!"#$%&'( ENSOQBO!!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#!!"#$%&'()!"#!!"#$%&'(!!"#$%&'()*+,-./0!"#$!"#$%&'()*+,-!"#$%&'()*+,-.Free et al. 13!"#$%&'!"#$%& ERATPAC-A BF!"#$%& ====!"!"#$%&'()*+,!"!"#$%&'()*+$,!"#$%&'()*+,-./01!"#$%&'()*+(,-./01!" 27!"#$%&'(! 50 a!"#$!!"#!"#$%!"#$!"#!!"#$%&'()*+,-./!"#$%&'()*+,-./0

5 ==== [1]! " # $ %! of large-area anomaly time series [J]. J. Geophys. Res., 2005,110, D22101, Houghton J T, Ding Y H, Griggs D J, et al. Climate Change 2001: The Science of Climate Change. [M]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Free M, Durre I, Lanzante J, et al. Creating climate reference datasets: CARDS Workshop on Adjusting RadiosondeTemperature Data for Climate Monitoring [J]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2002, 83(6): [3] Lanzante J R. Resistant, robust and nonparametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: Theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data [J]. Int. J. Climatol., 1996, 16(11): Parker D E, Gordon M, Cullum D P N, et al. A new global gridded radiosonde temperature data base and recent temperature trends [J]. Christy J R, Spencer R W, Braswell W D. MSU tropospheric temperatures: Dataset construction and radiosonde comparisons [J]. J. Atmos. Oceanic Zhai Panmao, Eskridge R. Analysis of inhomogeneities in radiosonde temperature and humidity time series [J]. J. Climate, 1996, 9: [7] K!"#$% &'()*+,-.,/0=[J]. Lanzante J R, Klein S A, Seidel D J. Temporal homogenization of monthly radiosonde temperature data, Part I: Methodology [J]. J. Climate, 2003, [16] Mears C A. Wentz F J. The effect of diurnal correction on satellite-derived lower tropospheric temperature [J]. Science, 2005, 309, doi: / science (online). temperature observed by satellites [J]. Science, 2003, 302: [18] Grody N C, Vinnikov K Y, Goldberg M D, et al. Calibration of multi- (MSU)[J]. J. Geophys. Res., 2004, 109, D24104, doi: / 2004JD reanalysis project [J]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1996, 77: [20] Kistler R, Kalnay E, Collins W, et al. The NCEP-NCAR 50-year reanalysis: Month means CD-ROM and documentation [J]. Bull. Amer. [21] Kanamitsu M, Wesley E, Woollen J, et al. NCEP-DOE AMIP-II reanalysis (R-2) [J]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2002, 83: [22] Uppala S M, Kallberg P W, Simmons A J. The ERA-40 reanalysis [J]. 16(2): [9] tropospheric temperature record [J]. J. Climate, 2003, 16: Meteor. Soc., 2001, 82: I 1997, 55: 563J572. [8] [15] Mears C A, Schabel M C, Wentz F J. A reanalysis of the MSU channel 2 [19] Kalnay E, Kanamitsu M, Kistler R, et al. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Tech., 2000, 17: [6] Tech., 2003, 20: satellite observations for climatic studies: Microwave sounding unit Geophys. Res. Lett., 1997, 24: [5] [14] Christy J R, Spencer R W, Norris W B, et al. Error estimates of version [17] Vinnikov K Y, Grody N C. Global warming trend of mean tropospheric [4] doi: /2005jd of MSU/AMSU bulk atmospheric temperatures [J]. J. Atmos. Oceanic Press, [2] =OMMS Lanzante J R, Klein S A, Seidel D J. Temporal homogenization of monthly radiosonde temperature data, Part II: Trends, sensitivities, and MSU Quart. J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 2005, 131(612): [23] Stendel M, Christy J R, Bengtsson L. Assessing levels of uncertainty in recent temperature time series [J]. Clim. Dyn., 2000, 16(8): comparison[j]. J. Climate, 2003, 16(2): [10] Angell J K. Effect of exclusion of anomalous tropical stations on temperature trends from a 63-station radiosonde network, and comparison with other analyses [J]. J. Climate, 2003, 16 (13): [11] Durre I, Vose R S, Wuertz D B. Overview of the integrated global [24] Jones P D, Moberg A. Hemispheric and large-scale surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and update to 2001[J]. J. Climate, 2003, 16: [25] Sterin A M. An analysis of linear trends in the free atmosphere temperature series for [J]. Meteorologiai Gidrologia, 1999, 5: radiosonde archive [J]. J. Climate. 2006, 19: [12] Thorne P W, Parker D E, Tett S F B, et al. Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002 [J]. J. Geophys. Res., 2005, 110, [26] Seidel D J, Lanzante J R. An assessment of three alternatives to linear trends for characterizing global atmospheric temperature changes [J]. J. Geophys. Res., 2004,109, D14108, doi: /2003jd D18105, doi: /2004jd [13] Free M, Seidel D J, Angell J K, et al. Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate (RATPAC): A new data set [27] I= K=!"#$%&'()* [J].=, 2005, 10(4): 780J790.!"#

6 !"!"#$%&'! L! L 1.5 (a) J0.5 J1.0 J (b) HadAT2 0.6 UAH RSS Surface 0.0 J0.2 J0.4 J0.6 J HadAT2 UAH RSS 0.0 J0.2 J0.4 J0.6 from from Jan Dec from from Jan Dec L(/10 a) L(/10 a) 1==!HadAT2!UAH, RSS! a!"! b!"#! 1981J1990!=Ehttp:/ / Fig. 1 Global lower stratospheric (a) and lower tropospheric (b) temperature anomalies from satellites and radiosondes (from (see Zhai s text, P.230)!!"#$%&'(&)* NPP!!"!"!!! = N NPP=/Eg/(m 2 a)f No data N 2==!"#$%&$'()*! P.247 Fig. 2 The terrestrial vegetation distribution in the studied region (see He s text, P.247) 3==!"#$% 2000J2004!" NPP! P.247 Fig. 3 The terrestrial annual mean NPP distribution during the period of 2000J2004 in the studied region (see He s text, P.247)

Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature Trends: A Direct Error Analysis

Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature Trends: A Direct Error Analysis 4636 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature Trends: A Direct Error Analysis QIANG FU ANDCELESTE M. JOHANSON Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of

More information

4.3 INTERCOMPARISON OF GLOBAL UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE DATASETS FROM RADIOSONDES AND SATELLITES. Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russian Federation

4.3 INTERCOMPARISON OF GLOBAL UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE DATASETS FROM RADIOSONDES AND SATELLITES. Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russian Federation 4.3 INTERCOMPARISON OF GLOBAL UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE DATASETS FROM RADIOSONDES AND SATELLITES D.J. Seidel 1, J. Angell 1, J. Christy 2, M. Free 1, S. Klein 3, J. Lanzante 3, C. Mears 4, D. Parker 5, M.

More information

Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature. Trends: A Direct Error Analysis

Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature. Trends: A Direct Error Analysis Stratospheric Influences on MSU-Derived Tropospheric Temperature Trends: A Direct Error Analysis Qiang Fu and Celeste M. Johanson Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle,

More information

Estimation of Tropospheric Temperature Trends from MSU Channels 2 and 4

Estimation of Tropospheric Temperature Trends from MSU Channels 2 and 4 MARCH 2006 S P E N C E R E T A L. 417 Estimation of Tropospheric Temperature Trends from MSU Channels 2 and 4 ROY W. SPENCER, JOHN R. CHRISTY, WILLIAM D. BRASWELL, AND WILLIAM B. NORRIS Earth System Science

More information

A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit

A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit 646 J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H E R I C A N D O C E A N I C T E C H N O L O G Y VOLUME 29 A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit STEPHEN PO-CHEDLEY

More information

4C.4 TRENDS IN LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATIONS AND THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES IN THE TROPICS DERIVED FROM ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENTS

4C.4 TRENDS IN LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATIONS AND THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES IN THE TROPICS DERIVED FROM ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENTS 4C.4 TRENDS IN LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATIONS AND THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES IN THE TROPICS DERIVED FROM ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENTS Junichi Tsutsui Central Research Institute of Electric

More information

ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE TREND COMPARISONS OF RADIOSONDE AND REANALYSIS DATA AT REGIONAL SCALES

ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE TREND COMPARISONS OF RADIOSONDE AND REANALYSIS DATA AT REGIONAL SCALES ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE TREND COMPARISONS OF RADIOSONDE AND REANALYSIS DATA AT REGIONAL SCALES Christopher A. Davey Western Regional Climate Center Desert Research Institute Reno,

More information

Monitoring Climate Change using Satellites: Lessons from MSU

Monitoring Climate Change using Satellites: Lessons from MSU Monitoring Climate Change using Satellites: Lessons from MSU Peter Thorne, Simon Tett Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, UK UAH data from John Christy Residual uncertainty work in collaboration with John

More information

Arctic tropospheric warming amplification?

Arctic tropospheric warming amplification? NATURE Vol 455 11 September 8 Arctic tropospheric warming amplification? Arising from: R. G. Graversen, T. Mauritsen, M. Tjernström, E. Källén & G. Svensson Nature 451, 53 56 (8) Relative rates of temperature

More information

Homogenization of the global radiosonde temperature and wind dataset using innovation statistics from reanalyses

Homogenization of the global radiosonde temperature and wind dataset using innovation statistics from reanalyses Homogenization of the global radiosonde temperature and wind dataset using innovation statistics from reanalyses Leopold Haimberger 1, Christine Gruber 1, Stefan Sperka 1 and Christina Tavolato 2 1 Department

More information

Antarctic atmospheric temperature trend patterns from satellite observations

Antarctic atmospheric temperature trend patterns from satellite observations Click Here for Full Article GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L12703, doi:10.1029/2006gl029108, 2007 Antarctic atmospheric temperature trend patterns from satellite observations Celeste M. Johanson

More information

CORRESPONDENCE. Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit

CORRESPONDENCE. Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit 1006 J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H E R I C A N D O C E A N I C T E C H N O L O G Y VOLUME 30 CORRESPONDENCE Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave

More information

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, D05105, doi: /2007jd008864, 2008

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, D05105, doi: /2007jd008864, 2008 Click Here for Full Article JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113,, doi:10.1029/2007jd008864, 2008 Using limited time period trends as a means to determine attribution of discrepancies in microwave

More information

A comparison of lower stratosphere temperature from microwave measurements with CHAMP GPS RO data

A comparison of lower stratosphere temperature from microwave measurements with CHAMP GPS RO data Click Here for Full Article GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L15701, doi:10.1029/2007gl030202, 2007 A comparison of lower stratosphere temperature from microwave measurements with CHAMP GPS RO data

More information

Chapter 4. Convening Lead Author: Carl Mears. Lead Authors: Chris Forest, Roy Spencer, Russell Vose, and Dick Reynolds. Contributing Authors

Chapter 4. Convening Lead Author: Carl Mears. Lead Authors: Chris Forest, Roy Spencer, Russell Vose, and Dick Reynolds. Contributing Authors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Chapter 4 What is our understanding of the contribution made by observational

More information

ECMWF reanalyses: Diagnosis and application

ECMWF reanalyses: Diagnosis and application ECMWF reanalyses: Diagnosis and application Dick Dee ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading RG2 9AX, United Kingdom D.Dee@ecmwf.int 1 Introduction Reanalysis uses a modern data assimilation system to reprocess

More information

Reply to Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit

Reply to Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit 1014 J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H E R I C A N D O C E A N I C T E C H N O L O G Y VOLUME 30 Reply to Comments on A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding

More information

Effect of Exclusion of Anomalous Tropical Stations on Temperature Trends from a 63-Station Radiosonde Network, and Comparison with Other Analyses

Effect of Exclusion of Anomalous Tropical Stations on Temperature Trends from a 63-Station Radiosonde Network, and Comparison with Other Analyses 2288 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 16 Effect of Exclusion of Anomalous Tropical Stations on Temperature Trends from a 63-Station Radiosonde Network, and Comparison with Other Analyses JAMES K. ANGELL NOAA

More information

Comparison of Tropospheric Temperatures from Radiosondes and Satellites:

Comparison of Tropospheric Temperatures from Radiosondes and Satellites: Comparison of Tropospheric Temperatures from Radiosondes and Satellites: 1979 98 James W. Hurrell,* Simon J. Brown, + Kevin E. Trenberth,* and John R. Christy # ABSTRACT A comprehensive comparison is made

More information

Intercomparison of temperature trends in IPCC CMIP5 simulations with observations, reanalyses and CMIP3 models

Intercomparison of temperature trends in IPCC CMIP5 simulations with observations, reanalyses and CMIP3 models doi:10.5194/gmd-6-1705-2013 Author(s) 2013. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Geoscientific Model Development Open Access Intercomparison of temperature trends in IPCC CMIP5 simulations with observations, reanalyses

More information

MS RAND CPP PROG0407. HadAT: An update to 2005 and development of the dataset website

MS RAND CPP PROG0407. HadAT: An update to 2005 and development of the dataset website MS RAND CPP PROG0407 HadAT: An update to 2005 and development of the dataset website Holly Coleman and Peter Thorne CV(CR) Contract Deliverable reference number: 03.09.04 File: M/DoE/2/9 Delivered from

More information

EARLY ONLINE RELEASE

EARLY ONLINE RELEASE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology EARLY ONLINE RELEASE This is a preliminary PDF of the author-produced manuscript that has been peer-reviewed and accepted for

More information

Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data?

Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data? JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 109,, doi:10.1029/2004jd004536, 2004 Can climate trends be calculated from reanalysis data? Lennart Bengtsson 1 Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading, UK Stefan

More information

State of the Climate Global Analysis June 2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center

State of the Climate Global Analysis June 2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center State of the Climate Global Analysis June 2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center Contents of this Section: Introduction Temperatures Precipitation Sea Ice Troposphere

More information

The role of poleward energy transport in Arctic temperature evolution

The role of poleward energy transport in Arctic temperature evolution Click Here for Full Article GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37,, doi:10.1029/2010gl043934, 2010 The role of poleward energy transport in Arctic temperature evolution Xiao Yi Yang, 1 John C. Fyfe, 1

More information

Recent Stratospheric Climate Trends as Evidenced in Radiosonde Data: Global Structure and Tropospheric Linkages

Recent Stratospheric Climate Trends as Evidenced in Radiosonde Data: Global Structure and Tropospheric Linkages 15 NOVEMBER 2005 T H O M P S O N A N D S O L O M O N 4785 Recent Stratospheric Climate Trends as Evidenced in Radiosonde Data: Global Structure and Tropospheric Linkages DAVID W. J. THOMPSON Department

More information

Can Climate Trends be Calculated from. Re-Analysis Data?

Can Climate Trends be Calculated from. Re-Analysis Data? Can Climate Trends be Calculated from Re-Analysis Data? Lennart Bengtsson 1,2, Stefan Hagemann 2 and Kevin I. Hodges 1 1. Environmental Systems Science Centre, Harry Pitt Building, Whiteknights, PO Box

More information

MLOST MLOST MLOST Upper Air Temperature Advances in Multi-Decadal Observational Records

MLOST MLOST MLOST Upper Air Temperature Advances in Multi-Decadal Observational Records Chapter Observations: Atmosphere and Surface MLOST 1911-194 MLOST 1951-198 MLOST 1981-1 -1.5-1 -.8 -.6 -.5 -.3 -. -.1.1..3.4.5.6.8 1 1.5 Trend ( C per decade) Figure. Trends in surface temperature from

More information

!"#$%&'()#*+,-./0123 = = = = = ====1970!"#$%& '()* 1980!"#$%&'()*+,-./01"2 !"#$% ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH

!#$%&'()#*+,-./0123 = = = = = ====1970!#$%& '()* 1980!#$%&'()*+,-./012 !#$% ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH www.climatechange.cn = = = = = 7 = 6!"#$% 211 11 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Vol. 7 No. 6 November 211!"1673-1719 (211) 6-385-8!"#$%&'()#*+,-./123 N O N=!"# $%&=NMMMUNO=!"#$!%&'()*+=NMMNMN = 1979

More information

!"#$%&'()*+,-./ I!"#$%&

!#$%&'()*+,-./ I!#$%& www.climatechange.cn Q = O OMMU P ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Vol.4, No.2 March, 2 8!"673-79 (28) 2--6 &'()*+,-./ I & NIO == N N=&' =NMMMUN O= &'()*+, =RNMSRR = NCAR! GCM CAM3. &'()*+,-&'()*+,

More information

Can Climate Trends be Calculated from Re-Analysis Data?

Can Climate Trends be Calculated from Re-Analysis Data? Can Climate Trends be Calculated from Re-Analysis Data? Lennart Bengtsson 1,2, Stefan Hagemann 2 and Kevin I. Hodges 1 1. Environmental Systems Science Centre, Harry Pitt Building, Whiteknights, PO Box

More information

Calibration of Temperature in the Lower Stratosphere from Microwave Measurements using COSMIC Radio Occultation Data: Preliminary Results

Calibration of Temperature in the Lower Stratosphere from Microwave Measurements using COSMIC Radio Occultation Data: Preliminary Results Calibration of Temperature in the Lower Stratosphere from Microwave Measurements using COSMIC Radio Occultation Data: Preliminary Results Shu-peng Ho 1,2, Mitch Goldberg 3, Ying-Hwa Kuo 1,2, Cheng-Zhi

More information

The Interdecadal Variation of the Western Pacific Subtropical High as Measured by 500 hpa Eddy Geopotential Height

The Interdecadal Variation of the Western Pacific Subtropical High as Measured by 500 hpa Eddy Geopotential Height ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE LETTERS, 2015, VOL. 8, NO. 6, 371 375 The Interdecadal Variation of the Western Pacific Subtropical High as Measured by 500 hpa Eddy Geopotential Height HUANG Yan-Yan and

More information

Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements

Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements Click Here for Full Article JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112,, doi:10.1029/2005jd006881, 2007 Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements John

More information

Assessing uncertainty in estimates of atmospheric temperature changes from MSU and AMSU using a Monte Carlo estimation technique

Assessing uncertainty in estimates of atmospheric temperature changes from MSU and AMSU using a Monte Carlo estimation technique JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116,, doi:10.1029/2010jd014954, 2011 Assessing uncertainty in estimates of atmospheric temperature changes from MSU and AMSU using a Monte Carlo estimation technique

More information

Error Estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU AMSU Bulk Atmospheric Temperatures

Error Estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU AMSU Bulk Atmospheric Temperatures MAY 23 CHRISTY ET AL. 613 Error Estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU AMSU Bulk Atmospheric Temperatures JOHN R. CHRISTY, ROY W. SPENCER, WILLIAM B. NORRIS, AND WILLIAM D. BRASWELL Earth System Science Center,

More information

During the past years, radiosondes launched

During the past years, radiosondes launched CREATING CLIMATE REFERENCE DATASETS CARDS Workshop on Adjusting Radiosonde Temperature Data for Climate Monitoring BY MELISSA FREE, IMKE DURRE, ENRIC AGUILAR, DIAN SEIDEL, THOMAS C. PETERSON, ROBERT E.

More information

Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy

Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Publications, Agencies and Staff of the U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Commerce 2011 Tropospheric temperature

More information

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Title Amplification of surface temperature trends and variability in the tropical atmosphere Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/050980tk

More information

The Coupled Model Predictability of the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon with Different Leading Times

The Coupled Model Predictability of the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon with Different Leading Times ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE LETTERS, 2012, VOL. 5, NO. 3, 219 224 The Coupled Model Predictability of the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon with Different Leading Times LU Ri-Yu 1, LI Chao-Fan 1,

More information

Effects of Black Carbon on Temperature Lapse Rates

Effects of Black Carbon on Temperature Lapse Rates Effects of Black Carbon on Temperature Lapse Rates Joyce E. Penner 1 Minghuai Wang 1, Akshay Kumar 1, Leon Rotstayn 2, Ben Santer 1 University of Michigan, 2 CSIRO, 3 LLNL Thanks to Warren Washington and

More information

Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series

Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 105, NO. D6, PAGES 7337 7356, MARCH 27, 2000 Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series B. D. Santer,

More information

Toward Elimination of the Warm Bias in Historic Radiosonde Temperature Records Some New Results from a Comprehensive Intercomparison of Upper-Air Data

Toward Elimination of the Warm Bias in Historic Radiosonde Temperature Records Some New Results from a Comprehensive Intercomparison of Upper-Air Data 15 SEPTEMBER 2008 H A I M B E R G E R E T A L. 4587 Toward Elimination of the Warm Bias in Historic Radiosonde Temperature Records Some New Results from a Comprehensive Intercomparison of Upper-Air Data

More information

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Climate Change in Subtropical Jetstream during

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Climate Change in Subtropical Jetstream during Climate Change in Subtropical Jetstream during -0 Journal: Manuscript ID: AAS--0.R Manuscript Type: Original Article Date Submitted by the Author: n/a Complete List of Authors: B, Abish Joseph, Porathur;

More information

Global reanalysis: Some lessons learned and future plans

Global reanalysis: Some lessons learned and future plans Global reanalysis: Some lessons learned and future plans Adrian Simmons and Sakari Uppala European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts With thanks to Per Kållberg and many other colleagues from ECMWF

More information

Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy

Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy Peter W. Thorne, 1,2 John R. Lanzante, 3 Thomas C. Peterson, 4 Dian J. Seidel 5 and Keith P. Shine 6 Changes in atmospheric temperature

More information

Comparison of Global Mean Temperature Series

Comparison of Global Mean Temperature Series ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH 2(4): 187 192, 2011 www.climatechange.cn DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2011.00187 REVIEW Comparison of Global Mean Temperature Series Xinyu Wen 1,2, Guoli Tang 3, Shaowu Wang

More information

Uncertainty in Signals of Large-Scale Climate Variations in Radiosonde and Satellite Upper-Air Temperature Datasets

Uncertainty in Signals of Large-Scale Climate Variations in Radiosonde and Satellite Upper-Air Temperature Datasets 1JUNE 2004 SEIDEL E AL. 2225 Uncertainty in Signals of Large-Scale Climate Variations in Radiosonde and Satellite Upper-Air emperature Datasets D. J. SEIDEL,* J. K. ANELL,* J. CHRISY, M. FREE,* S. A. KLEIN,

More information

New proofs of the recent climate warming over the Tibetan Plateau as a result of the increasing greenhouse gases emissions

New proofs of the recent climate warming over the Tibetan Plateau as a result of the increasing greenhouse gases emissions Chinese Science Bulletin 2006 Vol. 51 No. 11 1396 1400 DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-1396-6 New proofs of the recent climate warming over the Tibetan Plateau as a result of the increasing greenhouse gases emissions

More information

Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends. UPDATE. 1 Temperature reconstruction by domain: version

Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends. UPDATE. 1 Temperature reconstruction by domain: version Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends. UPDATE Temperature reconstruction by domain: version 2.0 temperature series Kevin Cowtan, Robert G. Way January

More information

On the Evaluation of Temperature Trends in the Tropical. Troposphere.

On the Evaluation of Temperature Trends in the Tropical. Troposphere. On the Evaluation of Temperature Trends in the Tropical Troposphere. Lennart Bengtsson 1, 2*, Kevin I. Hodges 1 1. National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 238,

More information

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1840 RECENT MULTIDECADAL STRENGTHENING OF THE WALKER CIRCULATION ACROSS THE TROPICAL PACIFIC (1) Supplementary_Figures.pdf Adobe document 1.5MB SI Guide Supplementary

More information

Stratospheric Temperature Trends Between 10 and 70 hpa During the Period

Stratospheric Temperature Trends Between 10 and 70 hpa During the Period 16 The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 2011, 5, 16-22 Open Access Stratospheric Temperature Trends Between 10 and 70 hpa During the Period 1948-2009 Marta Zossi de Artigas *,1,2 and Patricia Fernandez

More information

Warmest January in satellite record leads off 2016

Warmest January in satellite record leads off 2016 Feb. 4, 2016 Vol. 25, No. 10 For Additional Information: Dr. John Christy, (256) 961-7763 john.christy@nsstc.uah.edu Dr. Roy Spencer, (256) 961-7960 roy.spencer@nsstc.uah.edu Global Temperature Report:

More information

Recent land surface air temperature trends assessed using the 20th Century Reanalysis

Recent land surface air temperature trends assessed using the 20th Century Reanalysis JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116,, doi:10.1029/2011jd016438, 2011 Recent land surface air temperature trends assessed using the 20th Century Reanalysis David E. Parker 1 Received 20 June 2011;

More information

NOAA MSU/AMSU Radiance FCDR. Methodology, Production, Validation, Application, and Operational Distribution. Cheng-Zhi Zou

NOAA MSU/AMSU Radiance FCDR. Methodology, Production, Validation, Application, and Operational Distribution. Cheng-Zhi Zou NOAA MSU/AMSU Radiance FCDR Methodology, Production, Validation, Application, and Operational Distribution Cheng-Zhi Zou NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research GSICS Microwave Sub-Group

More information

Interdecadal and Interannnual Variabilities of the Antarctic Oscillation Simulated by CAM3

Interdecadal and Interannnual Variabilities of the Antarctic Oscillation Simulated by CAM3 ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE LETTERS, 2014, VOL. 7, NO. 6, 515 520 Interdecadal and Interannnual Variabilities of the Antarctic Oscillation Simulated by CAM3 XUE Feng 1, SUN Dan 2,3, and ZHOU Tian-Jun

More information

Assessments of Chinese Fengyun Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) Measurements for Weather and Climate Applications

Assessments of Chinese Fengyun Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) Measurements for Weather and Climate Applications 1206 J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H E R I C A N D O C E A N I C T E C H N O L O G Y VOLUME 28 Assessments of Chinese Fengyun Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) Measurements for Weather and Climate Applications

More information

Response and Sensitivity of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over Land to Added Longwave Radiative Forcing

Response and Sensitivity of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over Land to Added Longwave Radiative Forcing Response and Sensitivity of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over Land to Added Longwave Radiative Forcing Richard T. McNider Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL,

More information

Chapter 2 Variability and Long-Term Changes in Surface Air Temperatures Over the Indian Subcontinent

Chapter 2 Variability and Long-Term Changes in Surface Air Temperatures Over the Indian Subcontinent Chapter 2 Variability and Long-Term Changes in Surface Air Temperatures Over the Indian Subcontinent A.K. Srivastava, D.R. Kothawale and M.N. Rajeevan 1 Introduction Surface air temperature is one of the

More information

A multi-year comparison of lower stratospheric temperatures from CHAMP radio occultation data with MSU/AMSU records

A multi-year comparison of lower stratospheric temperatures from CHAMP radio occultation data with MSU/AMSU records JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112,, doi:10.1029/2006jd008283, 2007 A multi-year comparison of lower stratospheric temperatures from CHAMP radio occultation data with MSU/AMSU records A. K. Steiner,

More information

Spatial and temporal variations of light rain events over China and the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere

Spatial and temporal variations of light rain events over China and the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere Article SPECIAL ISSUE: Extreme Climate in China April 2013 Vol.58 No.12: 1402 1411 doi: 10.1007/s11434-012-5593-1 Spatial and temporal variations of light rain events over China and the mid-high latitudes

More information

ROBUST MEASUREMENT OF THE DURATION OF

ROBUST MEASUREMENT OF THE DURATION OF ROBUST MEASUREMENT OF THE DURATION OF THE GLOBAL WARMING HIATUS Ross McKitrick Department of Economics University of Guelph Revised version, July 3, 2014 Abstract: The IPCC has drawn attention to an apparent

More information

An update on the NOAA MSU/AMSU CDR development

An update on the NOAA MSU/AMSU CDR development An update on the NOAA MSU/AMSU CDR development Cheng-Zhi Zou NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research International TOVS Study Conferences (ITSC), Monterey, CA, April 14-20, 2010 1 Outline

More information

1. Introduction. 3. Climatology of Genesis Potential Index. Figure 1: Genesis potential index climatology annual

1. Introduction. 3. Climatology of Genesis Potential Index. Figure 1: Genesis potential index climatology annual C. ENSO AND GENESIS POTENTIAL INDEX IN REANALYSIS AND AGCMS Suzana J. Camargo, Kerry A. Emanuel, and Adam H. Sobel International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Earth Institute, Palisades,

More information

A COMPARISON OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN DEPTH-AVERAGED TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES

A COMPARISON OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN DEPTH-AVERAGED TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY Int. J. Climatol. 20: 503 518 (2000) A COMPARISON OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN 1979 1997 DEPTH-AVERAGED TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES THOMAS N. CHASE a,b, *, ROGER A. PIELKE Sr.

More information

The Formation of Precipitation Anomaly Patterns during the Developing and Decaying Phases of ENSO

The Formation of Precipitation Anomaly Patterns during the Developing and Decaying Phases of ENSO ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE LETTERS, 2010, VOL. 3, NO. 1, 25 30 The Formation of Precipitation Anomaly Patterns during the Developing and Decaying Phases of ENSO HU Kai-Ming and HUANG Gang State Key

More information

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION doi:10.1038/nature11576 1. Trend patterns of SST and near-surface air temperature Bucket SST and NMAT have a similar trend pattern particularly in the equatorial Indo- Pacific (Fig. S1), featuring a reduced

More information

Tropical stratospheric zonal winds in ECMWF ERA-40 reanalysis, rocketsonde data, and rawinsonde data

Tropical stratospheric zonal winds in ECMWF ERA-40 reanalysis, rocketsonde data, and rawinsonde data GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L09806, doi:10.1029/2004gl022328, 2005 Tropical stratospheric zonal winds in ECMWF ERA-40 reanalysis, rocketsonde data, and rawinsonde data Mark P. Baldwin Northwest

More information

1. Introduction. mountain; temperature; trends; radiosonde; re-analysis. Received 9 September 2006; Revised 26 February 2007; Accepted 17 March 2007

1. Introduction. mountain; temperature; trends; radiosonde; re-analysis. Received 9 September 2006; Revised 26 February 2007; Accepted 17 March 2007 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY Int. J. Climatol. 27: 1519 1529 (2007) Published online 15 June 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).1541 Short Communication A comparison of surface

More information

Summary of the Climate Dialogue on the (missing) tropical hot spot

Summary of the Climate Dialogue on the (missing) tropical hot spot Summary of the Climate Dialogue on the (missing) tropical hot spot Authors: Marcel Crok, Bart Strengers (PBL) October 2014 Climatedialogue.org (October 2014) 1 Introduction Based on theoretical considerations

More information

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity Gabriel A. Vecchi Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory NOAA Brian J. Soden Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric

More information

Global Response to the Major Volcanic Eruptions in 9 Reanalysis Datasets

Global Response to the Major Volcanic Eruptions in 9 Reanalysis Datasets Global Response to the Major Volcanic Eruptions in 9 Reanalysis Datasets Masatomo Fujiwara and Takashi Hibino (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) Sanjay Kumar Mehta (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Lesley Gray, Daniel Mitchell,

More information

Variational bias correction of satellite radiance data in the ERA-Interim reanalysis

Variational bias correction of satellite radiance data in the ERA-Interim reanalysis QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 35: 83 84 (29) Published online 5 October 29 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).493 Variational bias correction

More information

Historical trends in the jet streams

Historical trends in the jet streams GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L08803, doi:10.1029/2008gl033614, 2008 Historical trends in the jet streams Cristina L. Archer 1 and Ken Caldeira 1 Received 12 February 2008; revised 10 March 2008;

More information

Satellite Coincident Reference Upper Air Network Tony Reale NOAA/NESDIS Washington DC

Satellite Coincident Reference Upper Air Network Tony Reale NOAA/NESDIS Washington DC Satellite Coincident Reference Upper Air Network Tony Reale NOAA/NESDIS Washington DC (tony.reale@noaa.gov) 1. INTRODUCTION During the past 25 years of NOAA operational polar satellites, it has become

More information

P2.18 Recent trend of Hadley and Walker circulation shown in water vapor transport potential

P2.18 Recent trend of Hadley and Walker circulation shown in water vapor transport potential P.8 Recent trend of Hadley and Walker circulation shown in water vapor transport potential Seong-Chan Park and *Byung-Ju Sohn School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seoul National University, Seoul,

More information

Uncertainty of Atmospheric Temperature Trends Derived from Satellite Microwave Sounding Data

Uncertainty of Atmospheric Temperature Trends Derived from Satellite Microwave Sounding Data Uncertainty of Atmospheric Temperature Trends Derived from Satellite Microwave Sounding Data Fuzhong Weng NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research and Xiaolei Zou University of University November

More information

Evaluation of the Effect of the Luers Eskridge Radiation Adjustments on Radiosonde Temperature Homogeneity

Evaluation of the Effect of the Luers Eskridge Radiation Adjustments on Radiosonde Temperature Homogeneity 1335 Evaluation of the Effect of the Luers Eskridge Radiation Adjustments on Radiosonde Temperature Homogeneity IMKE DURRE, THOMAS C. PETERSON, AND RUSSELL S. VOSE National Climatic Data Center, Asheville,

More information

Human influence on terrestrial precipitation trends revealed by dynamical

Human influence on terrestrial precipitation trends revealed by dynamical 1 2 3 Supplemental Information for Human influence on terrestrial precipitation trends revealed by dynamical adjustment 4 Ruixia Guo 1,2, Clara Deser 1,*, Laurent Terray 3 and Flavio Lehner 1 5 6 7 1 Climate

More information

Tropospheric Temperature Changes and Their Relation to Increasing Greenhouse Gases and Sea Surface Temperatures

Tropospheric Temperature Changes and Their Relation to Increasing Greenhouse Gases and Sea Surface Temperatures Tropospheric Temperature Changes and Their Relation to Increasing Greenhouse Gases and Sea Surface Temperatures BRUCE T. ANDERSON Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University Boston, MA 02215

More information

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS OF EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION EVENTS ON ANTARCTICA

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS OF EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION EVENTS ON ANTARCTICA COMPOSITE ANALYSIS OF EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION EVENTS ON ANTARCTICA Lee Welhouse 2*, Matthew Lazzara 2,3, Matt Hitchman 1 Linda Keller 1, Greg Tripoli 1 1 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department

More information

High initial time sensitivity of medium range forecasting observed for a stratospheric sudden warming

High initial time sensitivity of medium range forecasting observed for a stratospheric sudden warming GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37,, doi:10.1029/2010gl044119, 2010 High initial time sensitivity of medium range forecasting observed for a stratospheric sudden warming Yuhji Kuroda 1 Received 27 May

More information

A comparison of tropospheric temperature changes over China revealed by multiple data sets

A comparison of tropospheric temperature changes over China revealed by multiple data sets JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES, VOL. 118, 4217 4230, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50370, 2013 A comparison of tropospheric temperature changes over China revealed by multiple data sets Lixia Zhang 1

More information

No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes

No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2145 No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes Sonia I. Seneviratne 1, Markus G. Donat 2,3, Brigitte Mueller 4,1, and Lisa V. Alexander 2,3 1 Institute

More information

Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP/NCAR analyses of surface air temperature

Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP/NCAR analyses of surface air temperature JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 109,, doi:10.1029/2004jd005306, 2004 Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP/NCAR analyses of surface air temperature A. J. Simmons

More information

Assessing the consistency between short-term global temperature trends in

Assessing the consistency between short-term global temperature trends in 1 2 Assessing the consistency between short-term global temperature trends in observations and climate model projections 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

More information

9.12 EVALUATION OF CLIMATE-MODEL SIMULATIONS OF HIRS WATER-VAPOUR CHANNEL RADIANCES

9.12 EVALUATION OF CLIMATE-MODEL SIMULATIONS OF HIRS WATER-VAPOUR CHANNEL RADIANCES 9.12 EVALUATION OF CLIMATE-MODEL SIMULATIONS OF HIRS WATER-VAPOUR CHANNEL RADIANCES Richard P. Allan* and Mark A. Ringer Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Met Office, Bracknell, Berkshire,

More information

Serendipitous Characterization of the Microwave Sounding Unit During an Accidental Spacecraft Tumble

Serendipitous Characterization of the Microwave Sounding Unit During an Accidental Spacecraft Tumble Serendipitous Characterization of the Microwave Sounding Unit During an Accidental Spacecraft Tumble Abstract Thomas J. Kleespies NOAA/NESDIS/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation E/RA2 Room 7 WWB,

More information

The Influences of TOVS Radiance Assimilation on Temperature and Moisture Tendencies in JRA-25 and ERA-40

The Influences of TOVS Radiance Assimilation on Temperature and Moisture Tendencies in JRA-25 and ERA-40 AUGUST 2009 S A K A M O T O A N D C H R I S T Y 1435 The Influences of TOVS Radiance Assimilation on Temperature and Moisture Tendencies in JRA-25 and ERA-40 MASAMI SAKAMOTO Numerical Prediction Division,

More information

March was 3rd warmest month in satellite record

March was 3rd warmest month in satellite record April 4, 2016 Vol. 25, No. 12 For Additional Information: Dr. John Christy, (256) 961-7763 john.christy@nsstc.uah.edu Dr. Roy Spencer, (256) 961-7960 roy.spencer@nsstc.uah.edu Global Temperature Report:

More information

Some Things I Think I Know About the Climate

Some Things I Think I Know About the Climate Some Things I Think I Know About the Climate John R. Christy University of Alabama in Huntsville Alabama State Climatologist We at UAHuntsville build climate datasets from scratch to test assertions (hypotheses)

More information

Satellite Bulk Tropospheric Temperatures as a Metric for Climate Sensitivity

Satellite Bulk Tropospheric Temperatures as a Metric for Climate Sensitivity Asia-Pac. J. Atmos. Sci., 53(4), 511-518, 2017 pissn 1976-7633 / eissn 1976-7951 DOI:10.1007/s13143-017-0070-z Satellite Bulk Tropospheric Temperatures as a Metric for Climate Sensitivity John R. Christy

More information

Using HIRS Observations to Construct Long-Term Global Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Time Series

Using HIRS Observations to Construct Long-Term Global Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Time Series Using HIRS Observations to Construct Long-Term Global Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Time Series Lei Shi and John J. Bates National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

More information

Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations

Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations Click Here for Full Article GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L15707, doi:10.1029/2007gl029698, 2007 Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations Roy W. Spencer,

More information

Tornado Frequency and its Large-Scale Environments Over Ontario, Canada

Tornado Frequency and its Large-Scale Environments Over Ontario, Canada 256 The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 2008, 2, 256-260 Open Access Tornado Frequency and its Large-Scale Environments Over Ontario, Canada Zuohao Cao *,1 and Huaqing Cai 2 1 Meteorological Service

More information

Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming

Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming Gerald A. Meehl 1, Haiyan Teng 1, and Julie M. Arblaster 1,2 1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 2. CAWCR,

More information

Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming in the free troposphere

Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming in the free troposphere CLIMATE RESEARCH Vol. 25: 185 190, 2004 Published January 23 Clim Res Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming in the free troposphere T. N. Chase 1, *, R.

More information

MONITORING PRESENT DAY CHANGES IN WATER VAPOUR AND THE RADIATIVE ENERGY BALANCE USING SATELLITE DATA, REANALYSES AND MODELS

MONITORING PRESENT DAY CHANGES IN WATER VAPOUR AND THE RADIATIVE ENERGY BALANCE USING SATELLITE DATA, REANALYSES AND MODELS MONITORING PRESENT DAY CHANGES IN WATER VAPOUR AND THE RADIATIVE ENERGY BALANCE USING SATELLITE DATA, REANALYSES AND MODELS Richard P. Allan Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading,

More information

Recent Trends in the Southern Oscillation

Recent Trends in the Southern Oscillation Recent Trends in the Southern Oscillation Todd P. Mitchell and John M. Wallace Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) University of Washington Submitted to the Journal of Climate

More information