High northern latitude surface air temperature: Comparison of existing data and creation of a new gridded data set 1900-2000

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 60 A, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-304

  Kuzmina, Svetlana I ^a   Johannessen, Ola M ^b,c   Bengtsson, Lennart ^d,e   Aniskina, Olga G ^a   Bobylev, Leonid P ^a,b  

^a Nansen Int Environmental and Remote   (Russian Federation)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA SET; LATITUDE; POLAR REGION;

EID: 39049087481     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00303.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (40)

1. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). 2005. Scientific Report. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1042 pp.
2. Arctic Climatology Project. 2000. Environmental Working Group Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas (eds F. Fetterer and V. Radionov). National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, CD-ROM.
3. Alexandrov, E., Bryazgin, N., Dement'ev, A. and Radionov, V. 2004. Meteorological Regime of the Arctic Basin (from Drifting Station Data). Volume 2 (ed. G. Alekseev). Gidrometeoizdat, St. Petersburg, 144 pp.
4. Alekseev, G. V. and Svyaschennikov, P. N. 1991. Natural Variability of Climate Characteristics in Northern Polar Region and Northern Hemisphere. Gidrometeoizdat, St. Petersburg, Russia, 159 pp. (in Russian).
5. Alekseev, G. V., Aleksandrov, Ye. I., Bekriayev, R. V., Svyashchennikov, P. N., Harlanienkova, N. Ye. and co-authors. 1999. Surface air temperature from meteorological data. In: Detection and Modelling of Greenhouse Warming in Arctic and sub-Arctic, INTAS Grant 97-1277 Technical Report on Task 1, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
6. Bengtsson, L., Hodges, K., Roeckner, E. and Brokopf, R. 2006. On the natural variability of the pre-industrial European climate. Clim. Dyn. 27, 743-760.
7. Bengtsson, L., Semenov, V. A. and Johannessen, O. M. 2004. The early twentieth-century warming in the Arctic-a possible mechanism. J. Climate 17, 4045-4057
8. Chapman, W. L., and J. E. Walsh. 1993. Recent variations of sea ice and air temperature in high latitudes. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 74, 33-47.
9. Douville, H., Mahfouf, J.-F., Saarinen, S. and Viterbo, P. 1998. 'The ECMWF surface analysis: Diagnostics and prospects'. ECMWF Tech. Memo. No. 258. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Shinfield, Reading, UK.
10. Frolov, I. E., Gudkovich, Z. M., Radionov, V. F., Shirochkov, A. V., Timokhov, L. A. 2005. The Arctic Basin -Results from the Russian Drifting Stations. Springer, Berlin, 273 pp.
11. Gandin, L. S. 1965. Objective Analysis of Meteorological Fields. Gidrimeteoizdat, Leningrad. Translated by Israel Program of Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 242 pp.
12. Hansen, J. E. and Lebedeff, S. 1987. Global trends of measured surface air temperature. J. Geophys. Res. 92, 13 345-13 372.
13. Hansen, J., Ruedy, R., Glascoe, J. and Sato, M. 1999. GISS analysis of surface temperature change. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 30 997-31022.
14. Hansen, J., Sato, M., Ruedy, R., Lo, K., Lea, D. W. and Medina-Elizade, M. 2006. Global temperature change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103, 14 288-14 293.
15. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2007. The physical science basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
16. Johannessen, O. M., Bengtsson, L., Miles, M. W., Kuzmina, S. I., Semenov, V. A., and co-authors. 2004. Arctic climate change: Observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability. Tellus 56A, 328-341.
17. Jones, P. D., New, M., Parker, D. E., Martin, S. and Rigor, I. G. 1999. Surface air temperature and its variations over the last 150 years. Rev. Geophys. 37, 173-199.
18. Jones, P. D., Osborn, T. J., Briffa, K. R., Folland, C. K., Horton, B. and co-authors. 2001. Adjusting for sampling density in grid-box land and ocean surface temperature time series. J. Geophys. Res. 106, 3371-3380.
19. Jones, P. D. and Moberg, A. 2003. Hemispheric and large-scale surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2001. J. Climate 16, 206-223.
20. Kagan, R. L. 1997. Averaging of Meteorological Fields. 379 pp. Kluwer Acad., Norwell, Mass.
21. Kahl, J. D., Charlevoix, D. J., Zaitseva, N. A., Schnell, R. C. and Serreze, M. C. 1993. Absence of evidence for greenhouse warming over the Arctic Ocean in the past 40 years. Nature 361, 335-337.
22. Karl, T. R., Knight, R. W. and Christy, J. R. 1993. Global and hemispheric temperature trends: Uncertainties related to inadequate spatial sampling. J. Climate 7, 1144-1163.
23. Martin, S., Munoz, E. A. and Drucker, R. 1997. Recent observations of a spring-summer surface warming over the Arctic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, 1259-1262.
24. Overland, J. E, Spillane, M. C., Percival, D. B., Wang, M. and Mofjeld, H. O. 2004. Seasonal and regional variation of pan-Arctic surface air temperature over the instrumental record, 1871-2000. J. Geophys. Res. 108, 4407-4410.
25. Peterson, T. C., Karl, T. R., Jamason, P. F., Knight, R. and Easterling, D. R. 1998. The first difference method: Maximizing station density for the calculation of long-term global temperature change. J. Geophys. Res. 103, 25 967-25 974.
26. Polyakov, I. V. and Johnson, M. A. 2000. Arctic decadal and interdecadal variability. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 4097-4100.
27. Polyakov, I. V., Johnson, M. A., Colony, R. L., Bhatt, U. and Alekseev, G. V. 2002. Observationally based assessment of polar amplification of global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, 1878, doi:.
28. Polyakov, I., Bekryaev, R. V., Alekseev, G. V., Bhatt, U. S., Colony, R. L. and co-authors. 2003. Variability and trends of air temperature and pressure in the maritime Arctic, 1875-2000. J. Climate 16, 2067-2077.
29. Przybylak, R. 2000. Temporal and spatial variation of surface air temperature over the period of instrumental observations in the Arctic. Int. J. Climatol. 20, 587-614.
30. Rayner, N. A., Parker, D. E., Horton, E. B., Folland, C. K., Alexander, L. V. and co-authors. 2003. Globally complete analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice and night marine air temperature, 1871-2000. J. Geophys. Res. 108, 4407, doi:.
31. Reynolds, R. W., Rayner, N. A., Smith, T. M., Stokes, D. C. and Wang, W. 2002. An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate. J. Climate 15, 1609-1625.
32. Reynolds, R. W. and Smith, T. M. 1994. Improved global sea surface temperature analyses using optimal interpolation. J. Climate 7, 929-948.
33. Rigor, I. G., Colony, R. L. and Martin, S. 2000. Variations in surface air temperature observations in the Arctic, 1979-1997. J. Climate 13, 896-914.
34. Schlesinger, M. E. and Ramankutty, N. 1994. An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65-70 years. Nature 367, 723-726.
35. Serreze, M. C., Walsh, J. E., Chapin, F. S., Osterkamp, T., Dyurgerov, M. and co-authors. 2000. Observational evidence of recent changes in the northern high-latitude environment. Clim. Change 46, 159-207.
36. Simmons, A. J., Jones, P. D., da Costa Bechtold, V., Beljaars, A. C. M., Kållberg, P. W. and co-authors. 2004. Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP/NCAR analyses of surface air temperature. J. Geophys. Res. 109, D24115.
37. Smith, T. M., Reynolds, R. W., Livezey, R. E. and Stokes, D.C. 1996. Reconstruction of historical sea surface temperature using empirical orthogonal functions. J. Climate 9, 1403-1420.
38. Uppala, S. M., Kållberg, P. W., Simmons, A. J., Andrae, U., da Costa Bechtold, V. and co-authors. 2005. The ERA-40 re-analysis. Quart. J. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 131, 2961-3012.
39. Vinnikov, K. Ya. 1977. On the issue of data production and interpretation of NHSAT change for 1881-1975. Met. Gidr. 9, 110-114 (in Russian).
40. Zhang, R., Delworth, T L. and Held, I. M. 2007. Can the Atlantic Ocean drive the observed multidecadal variability in Northern Hemisphere mean temperature? Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, 2, L02709.