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 Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:58 am Post subject: GISS Releases Suspect October 2008 Data |
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10 Nov 2008
John Goetz
October 2008 "warmest" October on record (according to GISS)
2005 temperature revised upward
Update: Thanks to an email from John S. - a patron of climateaudit.org - we
have learned that the Russian data in NOAA>s GHCN v2.mean dataset is
corrupted. For most (if not all) stations in Russia, the September data has
been replicated as October data, artificially raising the October
temperature many degrees. The data from NOAA is used by GISS to calculate
the global temperature. Thus the record-setting anomaly for October 2008 is
invalid and we await the highly-publicised corrections from NOAA and GISS.
GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis
(GISSTemp) released their monthly global temperature anomaly data for
October 2008. Following is the monthly global ?T from January to October
2008:
Year J F M A M J J
A S O
2007 85 61 59 64 55 53 53
56 50 54
2008 14 25 62 36 40 32 52
39 0 78
Here is a plot of the GISSTemp monthly anomaly since January 1979 (keeping
in line with the time period displayed for UAH). I have added a simple
12-month moving average displayed in red.
The addition of October has changed some of the temperatures for earlier
months:
GISS 2008 J F M A M J
J A S O
As of 9/08 14 25 62 36 40 29
53 50 49 ..
As of 10/08 14 25 62 36 40 32
52 39 50 78
The 0.78 C anomaly in October is the largest ever for October, and one of
the largest anomalies ever recorded.
Although North America was cooler than normal, Asia apparently suffered from
a massive heat wave.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/10/giss-releases-october-2008-data/
Warmest Regards
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