The Human Impacts Database
A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.Global surface temperature change
Atmospheric & Biogeochemical CyclesGreenhouse GasesThis quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2020) is reported.
| Value: |
1.22 ± 0.05 °C
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This is equivalent to... 2.20 ± 0.09 °F |
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| HuID: | 79598 | |
| Relevant Year(s): | 2020 | |
| Summary: | The global surface temperature change (known in the literature as anomaly) reflects the temperature over the Earth's land and sea surface collected from a variety of meteorological instruments and relative to reference years 1850-1900. | |
| Method: | Data obtained from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature Analysis ver. 4 (GISTEMP v4). The uncertainty for 1880-2018 is obtained from Lenssen et al. 2019, DOI:10.1029/2018JD029522. The uncertainty for 2020 given here is derived from Lenssen et al. 2019 where it is noted that the uncertainty of annual global mean temperatures since 1960 is approximately ± 0.05 °C. The uncertainty represents the 95% confidence interval. | |
| Source: | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies GISTEMP Team, 2020: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP), version 4, Dataset accessed 2020-12-17. (2020) | |
| Dataset: |
Global surface temperature change relative to 1850-1900 mean (1880-2020) (GISTEMPv4_global_surf_temperature_trend_1880-2020.csv)
global resolution
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| Added By: | nsarai |
