Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2009
Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements (since the late 1800s), was 2005. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2009. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. For more information on the data used to generate these images, please see http://giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies. The final frame represents this image of global temperature anomalies averaged from 2005 to 2009.
This visualization shows the same data as above with date overlay applied.
Temperature Difference colorbar
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1885 to 1889.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1895 to 1899.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1905 to 1909.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1915 to 1919.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1925 to 1929.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1935 to 1939.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1945 to 1949.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1955 to 1959.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1965 to 1969.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1975 to 1979.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1985 to 1989.
Global Temperature Anomalies averaged from 1995 to 1999.
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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Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Producers
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Amber H Jenkins (NASA/JPL CalTech)
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Scientists
- James Hansen (NASA/GSFC GISS)
- Reto A. Ruedy (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
- Kwok-Wai Ken Lo (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
- Makiko Sato (Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research)
- Robert B Schmunk (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
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Project support
- Robert B Schmunk (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.)
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Writer
- Adam P Voiland (Wyle Information Systems)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 27, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Series
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For more information on the this data see: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Datasets used in this visualization
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GISTEMP [GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)]
ID: 585The GISS Surface Temperature Analysis version 4 (GISTEMP v4) is an estimate of global surface temperature change. Graphs and tables are updated around the middle of every month using current data files from NOAA GHCN v4 (meteorological stations) and ERSST v5 (ocean areas), combined as described in our publications Hansen et al. (2010) and Lenssen et al. (2019).
Credit: Lenssen, N., G. Schmidt, J. Hansen, M. Menne, A. Persin, R. Ruedy, and D. Zyss, 2019: Improvements in the GISTEMP uncertainty model. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 124, no. 12, 6307-6326, doi:10.1029/2018JD029522.
This dataset can be found at: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
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