Annual Global Lower Troposphere Temperature (TLT) Anomaly Update – Distant Third Warmest for 2015
by Bob Tisdale
As expected, annual global lower troposphere temperature (TLT) anomalies in 2015 for both the RSS and UAH datasets ranked a remote third warmest.
See Figures 1 through 3.
Figure 1 (RSS)
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Figure 2 (UAH)
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Figure 3 (RSS-UAH Comparison)
RSS data through December 2015 are here. UAH data (beta 6.4) are here through November, and the December 2015 value of +0.44 deg C is from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog post here.
by Bob Tisdale
As expected, annual global lower troposphere temperature (TLT) anomalies in 2015 for both the RSS and UAH datasets ranked a remote third warmest.
See Figures 1 through 3.
Figure 1 (RSS)
# # #
Figure 2 (UAH)
# # #
Figure 3 (RSS-UAH Comparison)
RSS data through December 2015 are here. UAH data (beta 6.4) are here through November, and the December 2015 value of +0.44 deg C is from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog post here.
Keep in mind, however, that
lower troposphere temperature anomalies are
expected to rise sharply in 2016 in a lagged response to the 2015/16 El Niño.
lower troposphere temperature anomalies are
expected to rise sharply in 2016 in a lagged response to the 2015/16 El Niño.
See the post Evolutions of Global Surface and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomalies in Responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niños.
