A few days ago I posted the results of the RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA).
For March 2008 it has moved a little higher, with a value of .079°C for a change (∆T) of 0.081°C globally from February.
RSS
2008 1 -0.070
2008 2 -0.002
2008 3 0.079
click for a larger image – RSS data here
University of Alabama, Hunstville (UAH) published their data set on April 8th, and it is in good agreement with the RSS data. The ∆T for March was .074 degree C
UAH
2008 1 -0.046
2008 2 0.020
2008 3 0.094
click for a larger image -UAH Temperature data available here
GISS also published their global temperature anomaly data, which you can see here, and it is significantly different than two global satellite data sets:
GISS
Year Jan Feb Mar
2008 .12 .26 .67
I haven’t bothered to plot the graph yet, but the ∆T of .41 degree C change upward from February 2008 is quite large, and according to one of our commenters, JM:
The GISS Feb to Mar temperature change is the largest one month change in the entire record based on my macro search.
I have not verified that, but it seems plausible. We’ll see if GISS remains the outlier data set when HadCRUT publishes soon, I expect before the end of the week.
JM said
How does the current Feb-Mar change look for RSS and UAH, compared to their past differences?
Yet how many record snow falls did we have in March around the world?
Does Hansen think people are idiots that will believe whatever nonsense he serves up to justify his crusade?
Coldest Marsh since 2000 if I’m reading the data correctly.
RE: GISS
To diverge, or not diverge: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous audit,
Or to take arms against a sea surface temp of lies,
And by opposing end them? To adjust: to twist;
No more; and by extrapolation to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That GISS is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d away. To converge, to archive;
To archive: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that archive of data what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this nonreplicable coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of skeptical bloggers,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of lost grants, the lawsuits delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under failed predictions,
But that the dread of something after warming,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those audits we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of decadal resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their haline currents turn awry,
And lose the name of feedback action. – Soft you now!
The fair Mann! Nymphette, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.
Could someone double check this for me. I’ve loaded up the UAH in excel and get now a linear trend line of about .132 C per decade down from the .14 of last month but the UAH trend still stating it’s .14 C?
Could someone check what the current linear trend line slope is?
jeez: ‘Tis no so fair to wield the flourish of thy pen to so flail the backs of these most tragic outliers of humanity who seek but the sunlight of approval on their poor lost shrivelled souls…
…not to even mention the bank(quo) accounts.
Hadley will have to make a decision. Something or someone is awfully wrong.
Raven, March 2008 saw a considerable and negative snow cover anomaly across the northern hemisphere.
Perhaps, after digesting that, you might withdraw your slur?
Great stuff, jeez!
Dear Anthony,
SUBJECT: INDEX OF LEADING CLIMATIC INDICATORS
As many skeptics are now monitoring climatic data as avidly as investors monitor financial data, please allow me to float the idea that you officially post a so-called: INDEX OF LEADING CLIMATIC INDICATORS, just like economists do for the US economy every month.
This INDEX OF LEADING CLIMATIC INDICATORS could, for example, be made up of the following:
1. Arctic sea ice anomaly,
2. Antarctic sea ice anomaly,
3. GISS, HadCrut surface temperature anomalies
4. RSS, MSU satellite temperature anomalies
5. Solar activity (yet to be defined)
6. Solar constant
7. Rate of sea level rise anomaly
We could use 1980 – 2000 averages as the baseline.
Announcing the Index of Leading Climatic Indicators monthly would allow readers and audience to easily and quickly track what direction the climate is headed in.
I think this would be a useful statistic that the general public could understand right off the bat. I think If FoxNews and other media networks announced the WATTS INDEX OF LEADING CLIMATIC INDICATORS every month, it would be an important service to the general public.
The 7 components forming the composite I’ve listed above are just off the top of my head, and could of course be expanded, or modified.
I was planning to do this myself on a website here in Germany, but I just don’t have the time for it. You’d do a much better job at it anyway.
Hope you’ll find this idea interesting.
P. Gosselin
REPLY: I like the idea, and I had tossed this idea around in the past, and even have a website registered for it “globalwarmingindex.com”. Perhaps it is time to look at this again.
When I was a child I admired NASA. Now they are becoming a laughingstock. I hope they keep their paws off the satellite data.
This is Hadcrut graph
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/climon/data/themi/g17.htm
but of course 3 months Jan Feb March. Since it ain’t changed would estimate roughly 0.20C for March, 2008?
Something is rotten in the state of GISS
The GISS divergence may have something to do with their extrapolation of the Arctic temperatures and the “big melt” in sea ice last year. They are clearly waiting for another similar event this year, so it is logical to adjust temperatures ahead of the actual melting season. This is just a wild guess and does not include any conspiracy theory.
You can see all four live datasets compared here:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:2007/plot/rss/from:2007/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2007/plot/gistemp/from:2007
The data is checked for changes and fetched at 3am UTC/UTC+1 each day (and when I hear something has changed), so this should always give you the latest from each source.
Note that these are anomaly readings and hence can have slightly different baselines, so it would not be fair to infer from this that (say) GISTEMP is consistently higher.
The GISS data released for March is very interesting . When temperatures dived in January all four indicators showed it but when the March GISS has a positive step of 2/3 that magnitude the satellite data only shows a very small step . Very strange.
Surely the GISS number is a misprint. If that is indeed their estimation then their land-only value must be an all-time record.
I could be wrong here, but when I did a quick scan I found Jan-Feb 1935 to be the largest one month jump in the GISS Glb.Ts+dSST (with a temp change of +0.51 deg C).
Nevertheless, 0.41 is a big jump, and seems somewhat at odds with the satellite data. Not drawing conclusions here, just observing.
jeez:
BRAVO!
And, for fun, between the February and March versions, the values for 30 months were decreased by 1 and the values of 8 months were increased by 1. Not huge changes, to be sure. But, note that the addition of the March 2008 temperature was enough for the annual temperature of 1946 to now be colder than 1960 and 1972, and to drop 1903 into a tie with 1885, 1910 and 1912.
There were five other times when the absolute value of the change was greater than +41: Dec 1899, Jan 1921, Feb 1935, Dec 1939, and Mar 1960.
jeez (22:27:53) said:
To diverge, or not diverge: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous audit,
Or to take arms against a sea surface temp of lies,
And by opposing end them? To adjust: to twist;……
Interesting way to start my morning. Great work, I might like to post it on the Climate Clinic website.
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
GISS monthly delta-T’s, ranked descending:
Jan to Feb, 1935: 0.51
Dec to Jan, 1921: 0.45
Feb to Mar, 2008: 0.41
“What fools these mortals be.”
– Puck (A Midsummer’s Night Dream) 😉
The GISS numbers are outrageous. I think we’ll see March 08 as the month that proved GISS totally irrelevant and nonsensical.