Monday, May 05, 2014

Beautiful Graphic on Surface Temperature

This is such a beautiful graphic I can't resist posting it -- the increase in longitude-averaged surface air temperature as a function of latitude and time, averaged across longitude, from Ji et al in Nature Climate Change:

2 comments:

Oale said...

I'll save someone a comment and state: This lacks many areas, they maybe about 4 times smaller than the area covered by the graph, but they maybe significant.

David Appell said...

Maybe. But their methodology didn't allow conclusions in those zones.... so they didn't offer any.