Comments on: Global Temperature for February 2009 Down

By: March 2009 Global Temperatures from RSS

March 2009 Global Temperatures from RSS — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:25:19 +0000

[...] for the competition to guess the change in global temperatures for the previous month. Currently Jan Pompe is leading. Luck or insight? Time will [...]

By: Steve Short

Steve Short — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:06:02 +0000

Pusing this link down too.

Pushing it down. Down boy. Down.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550004/?sc=dwhn

By: DG

DG — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:45:12 +0000

Spatial coverage for UAH is also a factor.

In an earlier thread I figured .03-.04 increase for satellite, but didn’t specify which product, however do use UAH for estimating. I suspect something is awry with RSS this month, or UAH is picking up the SSW from January at the North Pole.

By: kuhnkat

kuhnkat — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:00:59 +0000

Over on CA, Anthony reports that Dr. Spencer states that UAH is now using Aqua data.

The issue is said to be diurnal differences. February had large diurnal differences which, the old sensor does not pick up as well.

By: jan pompe

jan pompe — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:47:37 +0000

When I saw this earlier onI thought for sure I had this one wrong. They are saying a rise from 0.30 to 0.36. I do wonder why the difference as they are using the same same sensor data.

By: Ian Castles

Ian Castles — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:57:51 +0000

David, Unless I’m misreading the RSS table linked to your post, the global temperature anomaly declined from 0.322C in January to 0.230C (not 0.280C) in February. Am I looking at the right series?

davids: Thanks Ian.