Improvements to NOAA's historical merged land-ocean surface temperature analysis (1880-2006)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2283-2296

  Smith, Thomas M ^a   Reynolds, Richard W ^b   Peterson, Thomas C ^b   Lawrimore, Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ANALYSIS METHODS; CENTURY (CO); CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIATIONS; DATA ERRORS; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURES; MONITOR (CO); OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 45349109008     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2100.1     Document Type: Article

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