GISTEMP Update
The Last Two Novembers are the Warmest Novembers on Record
Monthly temperature anomalies with base 1980-2015, superimposed on a 1980-2015 mean seasonal cycle. (Credit: NASA/GISS/Schmidt) — View larger image, PDF
November 2016 was the second warmest November in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
November 2016's temperature was 0.07 degrees Celsius cooler than the warmest November in 2015. Last month was 0.95 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean November temperature from 1951-1980.
The top two November temperature anomalies have been the past two years. 2015 was the hottest on record, at 1.02 degrees Celsius warmer than the November mean temperature, followed by 2016.
A map of the November 2016 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly, showing that North America and especially the Arctic region were much warmer than average. Meanwhile central Russia was colder than normal. — View larger image
The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world, ship- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.
The modern global temperature record begins around 1880 because previous observations didn't cover enough of the planet. Monthly analyses are sometimes updated when additional data becomes available, and the results are subject to change.
Related Links
For more information on NASA GISS's monthly temperature analysis, visit: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp.
For more information about NASA GISS, visit: www.giss.nasa.gov.
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