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Home — Field: CRU TS4.03 temperature

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CRU TS4.03 temperature
more information CRU TS4.03 Mean Temperature averaged over 2x 2 grid boxes
X axis: whole world in 360 1.00° steps, first point at 179.50° W, last point at 179.50° E
Y axis: regular grid with 180 1.00° steps, first point at 89.50° S, last point at 89.50° N

Monthly data available from Jan1901 to Dec2018 (1416 months)
Variable tmp (near-surface temperature) in degrees Celsius
Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
Considering: everything land points sea points show/hide more
only land points only sea points
not land points not sea points
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Units: convert to Celsius leave in degrees Celsius help
helpApply monthly high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value months
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -month running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of temperature
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
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If you really want to get it here, CRU TS4.03 temperature is available as a netcdf file (size 58.0873 MB).
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