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Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records

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Hausfather, Zeke, Cowtan, Kevin, Clarke, David C., Jacobs, Peter, Richardson, Mark, Rohde, Robert·2017·Science Advances
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.1601207PMC PMC5216687
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Instrumentally homogeneous SST records show a cooling bias in composite SST products and validate recent NOAA recent record revision.

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  • A precursor version of SST CCI data has been used to evaluate biases between instrumentally homogeneous observational datasets and to propagate observational uncertainty to scales required in model evaluation.

    “Users of a precursor version of SST CCI data have demonstrated its use for evaluating biases between different instrumentally homogenous observational datasets60 and for propagating observational uncertainty to scales required in model evaluation61.”

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Authors
Hausfather, Z., Cowtan, K., Clarke, D. C., Jacobs, P., Richardson, M., & Rohde, R.
Affiliations
  • Berkeley Earth (US)
  • University of York (GB)
  • Independent Researcher, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • George Mason University (US)
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
Hausfather, Zeke
ORCID
Venue
Science Advances
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2017-01-06
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
e1601207-e1601207
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.1601207
PMC
PMC5216687
OpenAlex
W2571024900
Cited by
119
References
1
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13.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
  • George Mason University
Funders
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • George Mason University
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Keywords
sea surface temperature, recent warming, SST trends, Argo floats, satellite SST, floating buoy, ocean warming

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