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Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2006
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- Visualizations by:
- Alex Kekesi
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Because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels seen in the last 12,000 years. This color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures from 1881 to 2006, the warmest ranked year on record.
Animation of global temperature anomalies from 1881 to 2006 taken as a five-year moving average. Dark blue indicates areas cooler than average. Dark red indicates areas warmer than average. This animation is annotated with the year that ends the five-year time span used in calculating the moving average.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Data provided by Robert B. Schmunk (NASA/GSFC GISS)
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- David Lea (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- James Hansen (NASA/GSFC GISS)
- Ken Lo (NASA/GSFC GISS)
- Makiko Sato (Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research)
- Martin Medina-Elizade (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Reto A. Ruedy (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
Series
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GISTEMP
ID: 585
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