Thursday, September 12, 2013

NOAA Temperature Anomaly Data

Quick Data Note: Temperature Anomaly Data from the NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has collected a tremendous amount of data on climate, temperature, etc, and has estimated historical data as well. Here, I post data that is an average of 10 different studies of historical temperature anomalies. I have simplified the data, averaging by decade, and only going from 500-2010. It clearly shows the recent nature of the "global warming" trend. The original data is freely downloadable from the NOAA site. First, I present a graph of the data, then the averaged data by decade. One might ask why a sociologist has, or cares about this data. I use it in my medical sociology class, when we look at the historical spread of epidemics, since disease and climate have a strong relationship.

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590-0.227102938
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1680-0.530783262
1690-0.546579516
1700-0.551013194
1710-0.470755751
1720-0.423584598
1730-0.456005153
1740-0.452800478
1750-0.39068468
1760-0.353957784
1770-0.363295204
1780-0.384086656
1790-0.364324891
1800-0.402277801
1810-0.533674475
1820-0.489271066
1830-0.495577731
1840-0.479862513
1850-0.410817711
1860-0.384946148
1870-0.366527608
1880-0.372989761
1890-0.339186542
1900-0.327383008
1910-0.284888394
1920-0.172514302
1930-0.058052136
1940-0.00798066
1950-0.030761379
1960-0.052368285
1970-0.06999941
19800.022378998
19900.20256274
20000.484414716

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