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Annual Average Temperature (Departure from the 1901-2000 Average)
From 1901 to 2008, each year’s temperature departure from the long-term average is one bar, with blue bars representing years cooler than the long-term average and red bars representing years warmer than that average. National temperatures vary much more than global temperatures, in part because of the moderating influence of the oceans on global temperatures. Image References: NOAA/NCDC1 (left); Smith2 (right)
References
- 1. [107] various. footnote 107., 2009.
- 2. [72] Smith, T. M., R. W. Reynolds, T. C. Peterson, and J. Lawrimore. "Improvements to NOAA's Historical Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (1880-2006)." Journal of Climate 21, no. 10 (2008): 2283-2296.
Summary
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