Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2014

Released Friday, January 16, 2015
Updated Friday, February 14, 2020 at 10:34AM

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- Written by:
- Lori Perkins and
- Patrick Lynch
- Scientific consulting by:
- Gavin A. Schmidt
- Produced by:
- Michelle Handleman
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This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2014. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the global temperatures 5-year averaged from 2010 through 2014.

NASA Finds 2014 Was Warmest Year in Modern Record

The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists.

The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

In an independent analysis of the raw data, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record.

For understanding climate change, the long-term trend of rising temperatures across the planet is more important than any year’s individual ranking. These rankings can be sensitive to analysis methods and sampling. While 2014 ranks as the warmest year in NASA’s global temperature record, it is statistically close to the values from 2010 and 2005, the next warmest years.

Since 1880, the average surface temperature of Earth has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), a trend that is largely driven by the increase in carbon dioxide and other human emissions into the planet’s atmosphere. The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades.

Regional differences in temperature in any year are more strongly affected by weather dynamics than the global mean. For example, in the U.S. in 2014, parts of the Midwest and East Coast were anomalously cool, while Alaska and three western U.S. states – California, Arizona and Nevada – recorded their warmest years on record, according to NOAA, which assesses official U.S. temperature records.

The GISTEMP analysis website is located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

This frame set displays the same content as the above frame set. It is the progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2014 without the dates or colorbar overlays.

This is the abbreviated 14 second movie starts in 1950 and runs through 2014 with dates and colorbar applied.

Date Overlay

This frame sequence of color-coded Global temperatures in robinson projection display a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2014. Each image represents a unique 5 year time period in the sequence. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue.

For More Information

See http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Data provided by Robert B. Schmunk (NASA/GSFC GISS)

Data visualizer
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Writer
- Patrick Lynch (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Scientists
- Gavin A. Schmidt (NASA/GSFC GISS) [Lead]
- Reto A. Ruedy (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
- Robert B Schmunk (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
Producers
- Michelle Handleman (KBRwyle) [Lead]
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
- Leslie McCarthy (None)

Series

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Global Temperature Anomalies

Datasets used in this visualization

GISTEMP (Collected with the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) sensor)

Model | NASA/GISS

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  Jan. 20, 2015, 6 a.m.
  The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880. This visualization shows a time series of five-year global temperature averages, mapped from 1880 to 2014. The year 1951 marks the beginning of a 30-year baseline from which global temperatures are compared. The long-term trend in rising global temperatures became especially clear in the early 1980s. Temperatures observed since 2010 continue the warming trend seen in past decades. For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record/)
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- 2014 Global Temperature Announcement Live Shot Page
  Jan. 16, 2015, 5:30 a.m.
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- 2014 Warmest Year On Record
  Jan. 16, 2015, 5:29 a.m.
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- Instagram: 2014 Warmest Year On Record
  Jan. 16, 2015, 5:29 a.m.
  The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists.Nine of the 10 warmest years since modern records began have now occurred since 2000, according to a global temperature analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. For complete transcript, click here. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record](http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record)
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- NASA On Air: NASA Reports 2014 Was A Record Warm Year (1/16/2015)
  Jan. 16, 2015, 5:29 a.m.
  LEAD: NASA reports the global temperature for 2014 was the warmest since 1880.1. Most of the earth experienced warmer than normal temperatures for the year.2. The majority of the warming has been since 1980 and hit the highest temperature on record this year. The earth is about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 100 years ago.3. Regional differences are strongly affected by year-to-year changing weather dynamics.TAG: NASA scientists track global temperatures as a way to measure how Earth’s climate is changing over time. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record](http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record)
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- Global Temperature Anomalies from November 2014
  Jan. 15, 2015, 7 p.m.
  Residents of the eastern United States know that the temperature was colder then the average temperature in November 2014. This data visualization of NASA s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Global temperature anomalies for January of 2014 show the United States and then zooms out to show the global picture. Temperature anomalies indicate how much warmer or colder it is than normal for a particular place and time. For more information on the GISTEMP, see the GISTEMP analysis website located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ This visualization of global surface temperatures from November 2014 starts with a local view of the United States and then zooms out to see the global color-coded map. Blue represents colder then normal temperatures and red represents warmer. Temperature Difference Colorbar This visualization sequence contains the same information without the colorbar overlay. For More InformationSee [http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/](http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/)
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- 2014 Global Temperature Anomalies: United States to Global view
  Jan. 15, 2015, 7 p.m.
  The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.In an independent analysis of the raw data, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record.For understanding climate change, the long-term trend of rising temperatures across the planet is more important than any year’s individual ranking. These rankings can be sensitive to analysis methods and sampling. While 2014 ranks as the warmest year in NASA’s global temperature record, it is statistically close to the values from 2010 and 2005, the next warmest years.Since 1880, the average surface temperature of Earth has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), a trend that is largely driven by the increase in carbon dioxide and other human emissions into the planet’s atmosphere. The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades.Regional differences in temperature in any year are more strongly affected by weather dynamics than the global mean. For example, in the U.S. in 2014, parts of the Midwest and East Coast were anomalously cool, while Alaska and three western U.S. states – California, Arizona and Nevada – recorded their warmest years on record, according to NOAA, which assesses official U.S. temperature records.The GISTEMP analysis website is located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ This visualization of annual global temperature anomalies from 2014 starts with a local view of the United States and then zooms out to the global color-coded map. Blue represents colder then normal temperatures and red represents warmer then normal temperatures. Color bar This frame sequence has the same global temperature anomaly data from 2014 without the colorbar overlay. For More InformationSee [http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/](http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/)
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- Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022
  Jan. 12, 2023, 5 a.m.
  NASA Reports 2022 Tied for 5th Warmest Year on Record, Continuing a TrendEarth s Earth science programs, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/earth This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2018-2022. This data visualization shows the 2022 global surface temperature anomaly compared with the 1951-1980 average. This data visualization shows only the 2022 global surface temperature anomalies on a rotating globe to highlight the La Niña. 2022 was one of the warmest on record despite a third consecutive year of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean. NASA scientists estimate that La Niña’s cooling influence may have lowered global temperatures about 0.11 degrees Fahrenheit from what the average would have been under more typical ocean conditions. Colortable is both degrees fahrenheit and degrees celsius. This image is the single year 2022 GISS temperature anomaly as compared with the 1951-1980 average. This version does not have any titles or text overlays, except for the corresponding colorbar. This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in robinson projection display a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies in even degrees Fahrenheit. The first frame in this sequence represents the data from 1880-1884. The second frame represents 1881-1885, ...and the last frame represents 2018-2022. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. This sequence of images are the corresponding date overlays for the 5 year rolling averages used in the first visualization on this page. This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in degrees celsius is designed to be displayed on the Science on a Sphere projection system. Each image represents a unique 5 year rolling time period with no fades between datasets. Frame 1884 represents data from 1880-1884, frame 1885 represents data from 1881-1885,... frame 2022 represents data from 2018-2022. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. This is the colorbar for the Science on a Sphere frameset above. It is in degrees celsius.
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- Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2021
  Jan. 12, 2022, 7 p.m.
  Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and NOAA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.Collectively, the past eight years are the top eight warmest years since modern record keeping began in 1880. This annual temperature data makes up the global temperature record – and it’s how scientists know that the planet is warming.GISS is a NASA laboratory managed by the Earth Sciences Division of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The laboratory is affiliated with Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science in New York.For more information about NASA’s Earth science missions, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/earth This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2017-2021. Scale in degrees Fahrenheit. This data visualization shows the 2021 global surface temperature anomalies on a rotating globe to highlight the La Niña. La Niña has developed and is expected to last into early 2022. Despite the cooling influence of this naturally occurring climate phenomenon, temperatures in many parts of the world are above average. The year 2000 also saw a La Niña event of similar strength to that in 2021, but 2021 global temperatures was more than 0.75 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than 2000. This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2017-2021. Scale in degrees Celsius. This frame sequence is the corresponding date range for each frame in the sequence. Degrees Fahrenheit Colorbar Degrees Celsius Colorbar This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in robinson projection display a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies in Fahrenheit. The first frame in this sequence represents the data from 1880-1884. The second frame represents 1881-1885, ...and the last frame represents 2017-2021. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in degrees celsius is designed to be displayed on the Science on a Sphere projection system. Each image represents a unique 5 year rolling time period with no fades between datasets. Frame 1884 represents data from 1880-1884, frame 1885 represents data from 1881-1885,... frame 2021 represents data from 2017-2021. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. This is the colorbar for the Science on a Sphere frameset above. It is in degrees celsius.
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- Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2020
  Jan. 14, 2021, 6 a.m.
  2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis ShowsEarth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, the year’s globally averaged temperature was 1.84 degrees Fahrenheit (1.02 degrees Celsius) warmer than the baseline 1951-1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. 2020 edged out 2016 by a very small amount, within the margin of error of the analysis, making the years effectively tied for the warmest year on record.“The last seven years have been the warmest seven years on record, typifying the ongoing and dramatic warming trend,” said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt. “Whether one year is a record or not is not really that important – the important things are long-term trends. With these trends, and as the human impact on the climate increases, we have to expect that records will continue to be broken.”A Warming, Changing WorldTracking global temperature trends provides a critical indicator of the impact of human activities – specifically, greenhouse gas emissions – on our planet. Earth s topography is exaggerated by 10x. This frame sequence is the corresponding date range for each frame in the sequence. This 136 frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in robinson projection display a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies in Fahrenheit. The first frame in this sequence represents the data from 1880-1884. The second frame represents 1881-1885, ...and the last frame represents 2016-2020. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. Degrees Fahrenheit Colorbar Degrees Celsius Colorbar This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in degrees celsius is designed to be displayed on the Science on a Sphere projection system. Each image represents a unique 5 year rolling time period with no fades between datasets. Frame 1884 represents data from 1880-1884, frame 1885 represents data from 1881-1885,... frame 2020 represents data from 2016-2020. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. Degrees Celsius horizontal colorbar
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- Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2019
  Jan. 15, 2020, 6 a.m.
  NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on RecordAccording to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth s time period. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. This frame sequence of color-coded global temperature anomalies in degrees celsius is designed to be displayed on the Science on a Sphere projection system. Each image represents a unique 5 year rolling time period with no fades between datasets. Frame 1884 represents data from 1880-1884, frame 1885 represents data from 1881-1885,... frame 2019 represents data from 2015-2019. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980.
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- Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2012
  Jan. 15, 2013, 8 a.m.
  This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2012. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal temperatures are shown in blue. Global surface temperature in 2012 was +0.55 This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2012. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies averaged from 2008 through 2012. This visualization shows the same data as above with the corresponding date overlay applied. The final frame and the large still image represent global temperature anomalies averaged from 2008 through 2012. Temperture Difference colorbar This visualization shows the data from 1880 through 2012 without any overlays applied. This is the frame matched date overlay that corresponds to the data. Abbreviated 13 second movie starting from 1950 through 2012 with dates and colorbar applied. Abbreviated 13 second movie which starts in 1950 and runs through 2012 with dates, but no colorbar. Abbreviated 13 second movie that starts with data from 1950 without dates or colorbar. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1890 to 1894. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1900 to 1904. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1900 to 1904. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1910 to 1914. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1920 to 1924. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1930 to 1934. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1940 to 1944. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1950 to 1954. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1960 to 1964. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1970 to 1974. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1980 to 1984. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1990 to 1994. Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 2000 to 2004. This frame set is designed to be used on the Science On a Sphere display. It contains the five-year rolling averages that start with (1880 through 1884) and end with (2008 through 2012). This is a presentation of a hyperwall show associated with this animation.
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