GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Animations

The following video animations were prepared at NASA/GISS and are based on version 4 of the GISTEMP analysis. They use a different color table than the SVS animations as well as a different but similar map projection, and do not attempt to estimate and fill in temperatures in missing data areas.

Sample image from animation

5-Year Mean Anomaly, 1880-2023

Begins with the 1880-1884 mean calendar year anomaly and ends with 2019-2023. Duration is about 35 seconds.
+ View MP4 video (2.1 MB).

10-Year Mean Anomaly, 1880-2023

Begins with the 1880-1889 mean calendar year anomaly and ends with 2014-2023. Duration is about 35 seconds.
+ View MP4 video (1.6 MB).


Sample image from temperature animation

Since 2007, NASA/GSFC's Scientific Visualization Studio has created animations based on the GISTEMP dataset following the end of each calendar year. The most recent animation of the five-year average temperature anomaly available was released in January 2023 and shows the five-year mean anomaly of surface temperature for 1880 through 2022. The animation frames show show the rolling average, so that the animation begins with the 1880-1884 global surface temperature anomaly, advances in one year increments so that the second image shows the 1881-1885 anmaly, and progresses on to end with the 2018-2022 anomaly. This animation was based on version 4 of the GISTEMP analysis, which in turn is based on the GHCN v4 and ERSST v5 datasets.

The SVS has produced such 5-year animations after 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.

Animations created prior to the 2019 posting were based on either version 2 or 3 of the GISTEMP analysis, which used earlier versions of the GHCN and ERSST input datasets and also included SCAR data (see the GISTEMP history webpage).

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