Global and National Average Temperature from the Instrument Record

Updated 12 October, 2003

US National Assessment of
the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change
Global and National Average Temperature
from the Instrument Record

Figure 3: (a) Globally averaged annual temperature for combined land and ocean for the period 1900-1999 based on the method by Quayle et al. (1999), (b) US averaged annual temperature for the period 1900-1999 using the USHCN data set (Easterling et al. 1996).

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US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change Global and National Average Temperature from the Instrument Record

US National Assessment of
the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change
Global and National Average Temperature
from the Instrument Record