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Rate of change of global average temperature, 1850-2011 (in ºC per decade)

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Rates of change of global average temperature (1850 to 2011) in ºC per decade, based on 10-year running average of the 3 datasets: 1) Black line - HadCRUT3 from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, baseline period 1850-1899 (Brohan et al., 2006), 2) Red line – MLOST from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre, baseline period 1880-1899 (Smith et al., 2008), and 3) Blue line - GISSTemp from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies, baseline period 1880-1899 (Hansen et al., 2010).
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EEA, based on NASA's GISS mean land-ocean temperature anomaly and Hadley Center's HadCRUT3 dataset

On data see further: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data-providers-and-partners/noaas-national-geophysical-data-center-ngdc

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External Data Spec Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (NASA) Annual Global (Land and Ocean) temperature anomalies - NASA GLOBAL Land-Ocean Temperature Index in 0.01 degrees Celsius Global temperature data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies NASA – Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)
External Data Spec Annual Global (Land and Ocean) temperature anomalies National centres for environmental information (NCEI) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/:Annual Global (Land and Ocean) temperature anomalies  (degrees C)    
External Data Spec HadCRUT4 (Met Office, CRU) Annual Global (Land and Ocean) temperature anomalies – HadCRUT (degrees  C) HadCRUT4 from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit

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Figure Change in global average temperature from three sources (1850–2011) Left figure: Global average air temperature anomalies (1850 to 2011) in degrees Celsius (°C) relative to a pre-industrial baseline period for 3 analyses of observations: 1) Black line - HadCRUT3 from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, baseline period 1850-1899 (Brohan et al., 2006) with the grey area representing the 95% confidence range, 2) Red line – MLOST from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre, baseline period 1880-1899 (Smith et al., 2008), and 3) Blue line - GISSTemp from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies, baseline period 1880-1899 (Hansen et al., 2010). Upper graph shows annual anomalies and lower graph shows decadal average anomalies for the same datasets. Right figure: Rates of change of global average temperature (1850 to 2011) in ºC per decade, based on 10-year running average of the 3 datasets: 1) Black line - HadCRUT3 from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, baseline period 1850-1899 (Brohan et al., 2006), 2) Red line – MLOST from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre, baseline period 1880-1899 (Smith et al., 2008), and 3) Blue line - GISSTemp from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies, baseline period 1880-1899 (Hansen et al., 2010).

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