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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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July’s Hadcrut4.6(3D) = 0.65C

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Clive Best

My preferred method for calculating the global average temperature anomaly  for HADCRUT4.6 is by triangulating the measurements over the surface of a sphere. This gives almost identical results to those of Cowtan & Way but is a far simpler and … Continue reading →

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HADCRUT4.6 for June 2018

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Clive Best

The CRUTEM4.6 weather station data for June 2018 has just been published, which when combined with the HadSST3 sea surface temperature data forms the global average – HadCRUT4.6. The traditional method for calculating this is by binning all the station … Continue reading →

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