Author Archives: Clive Best

Differences in 2019 temperatures

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Clive Best

HadCRUT4.6 has released their annual temperature result for 2019 as 0.74C. They grid the station data (CRUTEM4) with SST data (HADSST3) in 5×5 degree bins and perform an area weighted: global average. CRUTEM4 has 7680 stations which contribute to calculating … Continue reading →

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2019 Annual Temperature

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Clive Best

The December 2019 temperature was up by 0.12C from November at  1.01C relative to 1961-1990. This completes the annual global average temperature for 2019 making it the second warmest year at 0.86C. This is  just 0.015C cooler than 2016. All … Continue reading →

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The baseline problem

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Clive Best

A baseline is simply a period of successive years whose average temperature is subtracted from a time series to produce temperature “anomalies”. One normally associates anomalies with weather station data where the baseline is then the 12 monthly seasonal averages … Continue reading →

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