From Dr. Roy Spencer:
The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2014 is +0.31 deg. C, unchanged from June (click for full size version):
The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 19 months are:
YR MON GLOBAL NH SH TROPICS
2013 1 +0.497 +0.517 +0.478 +0.386
2013 2 +0.203 +0.372 +0.033 +0.195
2013 3 +0.200 +0.333 +0.067 +0.243
2013 4 +0.114 +0.128 +0.101 +0.165
2013 5 +0.082 +0.180 -0.015 +0.112
2013 6 +0.295 +0.335 +0.255 +0.220
2013 7 +0.173 +0.134 +0.211 +0.074
2013 8 +0.158 +0.111 +0.206 +0.009
2013 9 +0.365 +0.339 +0.390 +0.190
2013 10 +0.290 +0.331 +0.249 +0.031
2013 11 +0.193 +0.160 +0.226 +0.020
2013 12 +0.266 +0.272 +0.260 +0.057
2014 1 +0.291 +0.387 +0.194 -0.029
2014 2 +0.170 +0.320 +0.020 -0.103
2014 3 +0.170 +0.338 +0.002 -0.001
2014 4 +0.190 +0.358 +0.022 +0.092
2014 5 +0.327 +0.325 +0.328 +0.175
2014 6 +0.305 +0.315 +0.295 +0.509
2014 7 +0.306 +0.293 +0.319 +0.453
The global image for July should be available in the next day or so here.
Popular monthly data files (these might take a few days to update):
uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt (Lower Troposphere)
uahncdc_mt_5.6.txt (Mid-Troposphere)
uahncdc_ls_5.6.txt (Lower Stratosphere)
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UAH press release:
Global Temperature Report: July 2014
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
July temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.31 C (about 0.56 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
![graph072014[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/graph0720141.png?resize=640%2C234&quality=75)
Northern Hemisphere: +0.29 C (about 0.52 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.32 C (about 0.58 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
Tropics: +0.45 C (about 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
![July2014map[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/july2014map1.png?quality=75)
June temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.31 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.32 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.30 C above 30-year average
Tropics: +0.51 C above 30-year average
(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)
Notes on data released August 5, 2014:
In the tropics, July 2014 was the second warmest July in the 36-year satellite record, only 0.03 C cooler than July 2009 and 0.06 C warmer than July 1998, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. The average temperature in the tropics during July was 0.45 C (about 0.81° F) warmer than seasonal norms for the month.
The global average temperature for July was 0.31 C (about 0.56 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms, the fifth warmest July in the satellite record.
Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth’s atmosphere in July was over western Russia near the town of Verkhoturye (one of the oldest Russian towns east of the Urals), where Antarctic winter temperatures were as much as 3.77 C (about 6.79 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than seasonal norms. Compared to seasonal norms, the warmest departure from average in July was in northern Norway near the town of Borkenes. Temperatures there were as much as 2.93 C (about 5.27 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms.
Archived color maps of local temperature anomalies are available on-line at:
As part of an ongoing joint project between UAHuntsville, NOAA and NASA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, an ESSC principal scientist, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.
The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a “public” computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.
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Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth’s atmosphere in July was over western Russia near the town of Verkhoturye (one of the oldest Russian towns east of the Urals), where Antarctic winter temperatures were as much as 3.77 C (about 6.79 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than seasonal norms.
Wait a second. Western Russia in an Antarctic winter?
5 Aug: Washington Times: Jennifer Harper: Paging Al Gore: NASA says that global warming could be ‘on hiatus’
On Tuesday, NASA’s Langley Research Center atmospheric scientist Norman Loeb presented a talk titled “The recent pause in global warming: A temporary blip or something more permanent?”
The lecture explores how “global warming may be on vacation,” NASA helpfully explains.
Uh-oh. Paging Al Gore. There’s even a new term for the phenomenon.
Mr. Loeb’s presentation offered the most recent research related to a slowdown in surface warming referred to as the “global warming hiatus,” the federal agency says. Over the last 15-years, the global mean surface temperature of Earth has increased at a rate that is roughly one-third of that over the past 60 years, NASA notes…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/5/paging-al-gore-nasa-says-that-global-warming-could/
It is clear that the oceans maintain a high temperature in the north.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/atmosphere/radbud/gs19_prd.gif
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/mspps/np_images/amsua_ts_des.gif
We’re due for a fall in termperatures. There may be a La Nina in the next few months. Already there is an Atlantic “La Nina”. When the Pacific one follows then global temperatures could head south.
Anderson said. “Water temperatures are about 3 C (5 F) above average around Newfoundland.”
bit more detail re Norman Loeb lecture:
NASA Langley Colloquium Committee
Colloquium: August 5, 2014
The Recent Pause in Global Warming: A Temporary Blip or Something More Permanent?
Norman Loeb
Abstract
During the past 15 years, the global mean surface temperature of Earth has increased at a rate that is roughly one-third of that over the past 60 years. This slow-down in surface warming has been referred to as the “Global Warming Hiatus”…
Some view it as evidence that man-made global warming is a myth, while others explain that it is simply due to internal climate variability that is temporarily masking a longer-term temperature trend. This presentation provides a summary and perspective on recent research related to the global warming hiatus…
Speaker
Dr. Loeb is an atmospheric scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. He is the Principal Investigator of a satellite project called Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), which observes the Earth’s radiation budget from space…
http://colloqsigma.larc.nasa.gov/past-colloquium-lectures/all-colloquium-lectures/colloquium-august-5-2014/
In winter, when the polar vortex will be weak (high pressure over the Arctic Circle) temperature quickly will drop continents. Only the direction of the wind from the ocean may increase the temperature. The negative anomalies of ocean temperatures in the south are already too durable.
Us see cloudy over the oceans.
http://www.sat24.com/image2.ashx?region=world&time=false&index=6
Climate change deniers risk being relegated to the ash heap of history. Yet despite the scientific consensus (and, yes, there is consensus), there are those that insist on denying that anthropogenic (i.e. human caused) climate change is real and has arrived.
We know that humans are changing a climate that has been stable for about 10,000 years, and that they are doing this through the unbridled use of fossil fuels (indeed half of all fossil fuels consumed since the start of the Industrial Revolution have been used in the last 30 years).
From: Glenn McGillivray is Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. I guess that makes him a climate expert.
http://www.insblogs.com/catastrophe/climate-change-deniers-risk-relegated-ash-heap-history/1616
Nature refuses to play ball…
Katherine says:
August 5, 2014 at 10:55 pm
But CAGW can do anything! Even move entire continents!
The very preliminary sea surface temperature update for July is here:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/very-very-preliminary-july-2014-sea-surface-temperature-sst-update/
On Monday, I prepared a quick post primarily about the equatorial Pacific that confirms what everybody knows. The warm waters from the Kelvin wave earlier this year have pretty much been consumed, and the sea surface temperatures in the NINO regions are approaching normal conditions again:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/very-very-preliminary-july-2014-sea-surface-temperature-sst-update/
ES:
To cut to the chase: your ‘facts’ are flat wrong. We don’t “know” the things you claim.
If you read this site for a while, you can become educated, and you won’t be emitting nonsense like you did in your comment above. You can learn the truth. IF you want to.
Regarding the nincompoop you linked to, you say:
I guess that makes him a climate expert.
I guess not. Anyone writing for an ‘institute’ with a name like that is shoveling wild-eyed propaganda. If you comment here, you should know that.
Each time that I see , presented on this site, the UAH Global Lower Atmosphere Temperature graphs I cannot help noticing an apparent step change in 2001-2002, by about 0.2 – 0.3C.
If one allows for the volcanic El Chinchon and Pintaubo cooling events and the “super El nino” warming prior to 2000, then it appears to the un (or ill-) educated mind that the mechanism(s) affecting the observed measurements abruptly “reset” from a lower , fairly stable, state to a higher level in a period of about 1 year , too short to be a response to a slow increase in CO2 concentration in such a short time .
Surely it is not simply a change in experimental technique or detectors?.
Is there any other potential, natural, factor affecting these measurements at that particular time period ?
From other threads we learn of a significant increase in China’s contribution to CO2 and , of course associated pollution, from 2000 onward , but the timescale does not match exactly.
dbstealey says at August 6, 2014 at 1:39 am…
I do not think that ES was endorsing the “climate expert”.
I think he was offering up something for fun and ridicule. Just to have a laugh.
Let us consider the temperature anomalies in the Atlantic. Clearly the Gulf Stream turns south.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/07/12/0000Z/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-20.01,52.95,838
Ocean temperature anomalies between Canada and Greenland exceed -6 degrees C.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/07/12/0000Z/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-56.40,65.90,1106
I know that UAH does not actually record the temperatures at ground level and it shows, because the northern hemisphere in July was much colder than normal and yet UAH shows it at +0.293.
Similarly quite a bit of the southern hemisphere has also been cold and UAH shows it at +0.319.
Are they actually measuring the heat escaping from the surface which is causing the cold conditions?
I’ve read here that UAH is sometimes out of phase with ground temps for a month, up or down, but that it gets back in step.
“In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years,” says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. “The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions.”
The cause of the surge is solar minimum, a deep lull in solar activity that began around 2007 and continues today. ”
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/ray_surge.html
Clouds over the oceans will be very much.
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/webform/query.cgi?startday=01&startmonth=01&startyear=1965&starttime=00%3A00&endday=05&endmonth=08&endyear=2014&endtime=00%3A00&resolution=Automatic+choice&picture=on
Thanks for the regular updates.
However, must ask again – what caused the huge and unprecedented (in the satellite era data) spike in 1998. I don’t believe even a super El Niño contains sufficient energy to produce such a large and rapid global temperature change.
Your first graph shows a 0.8C spike from early 97 to early 98 and a similar 0.8C decline by early 99. This spike is double the magnitude and less than half the period of any other rapid event on that graph. I didn’t do the math but we’re talking about a massive influx of energy into out atmosphere and I seriously doubt it came from the Pacific Ocean or our sun. And the result is a 0.4C step change in mean temps from the trend prior to 98 (basically flat) to after the 98 spike (again, basically flat trend line).
I feel strongly this is a mystery that needs to be addressed and solved. And it obviously has nothing to do with atmospheric CO2 concentrations!
Bill
ren,do you have links to historical tracking of the gulf stream ?
To boost profits in the insurance industry, one merely has to overstate the risks.
Land temperatures in July from satellite (it would be good if the NOAA developed this into a reported temperatures series). Very similar to the UAH map.
Average anomaly was -0.40C in this map versus the 2001-2010 baseline (pretty hard for the NCDC to declare July as an all-time record on land, will most likely be down considerably).
http://s9.postimg.org/ry4emb6wf/Land_Temps_Satellite_July14.jpg
Oh good, I was able to decoded this, UAH = University of Alabama at Huntsville.