Abstract
An assessment is made of how well the monthly mean surface temperatures for the decade of the 1980s are known. The sources of noise in the data, the numbers of observations, and the spatial coverage are appraised for comparison with the climate signal, and different analyzed results are compared to see how reproducible they are. The data are further evaluated by comparing anomalies of near-global monthly mean surface temperatures with those of global satellite channel two microwave sounding unit (MSU) temperatures for 144 months from 1979 to 1990. -from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1405-1423 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Climate |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - 1992 |