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Global surface air temperatures - Update through 1987Data from meteorological stations show that surface air temperatures in the 1980s are the warmest in the history of instrumental records. The four warmest years on record are all in the 1980s, with the warmest years in the analysis being 1981 and 1987. The rate of warming between the mid-1960s and the present is higher than that which occurrred in the previous period of rapid warming between the 1880s and 1940.
Document ID
19880044558
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Hansen, James
(NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies New York, NY, United States)
Lebedeff, Sergej
(NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies New York, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 15
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
88A31785
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: EPA-R-812962-01-0
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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