Global vs USA Continent RSS Temperature Anomaly PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jørgen Vestergaard   
Sunday, 07 November 2010 18:30


glob-vs-usa-201010-iconIt is kind of interesting to compare the global temperatures with those of the USA alone.
There is probably nothing wrong with the two sets not being on the same track, but to me it makes more sense to rely on ocean temperatures as they by nature will fluctuate less and possible give a better impression of the tendensies.

However, the US temperatures gives the impression that they have been within a relative steep cooling period for the last 13 years or so, so if Obama want to save the country, maybe his government should support more production of CO2, instead of taxing it. Or is it that CO2 causes very, very little warming and that Obama will not be able to control our climate that way?

Anyway, I just had some fun with the number and wanted to share it with you.


I have taken the data from ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/monthly_time_series/rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_2.txt
and used column -70/82.5 and Cont.USA.

The configuration parameters are as follows:

  //
  //  Definitions from configFile
  //
  define( "CANVASX", 750 );
  define( "CANVASY", 560 );
 
  define( "TITLE"  , "RSS Temperature Anomaly - Jan 1979 to Oct 2010" );
 
  define( "YLABEL" , "Anomaly in degree Kelvin" );
  define( "XLABEL" , "Year" );
 
  define( "YMIN"   , -3.5 );
  define( "YMAX"   , 3.0  );
 
  define( "MXTICS" , "mxtics 5" );
  define( "MYTICS" , "mytics 5" );
 
  define( "SUMB"   , 0  );	// Sum Begin column
  define( "SUME"   , 0 );	// Sum End column
 
  define( "DECYEAR", true );// Make decimal year out of year and month column
  define( "DECYEARY", 2 );	// Year column
  define( "DECYEARM", 3 );	// Month column
 
  define( "XCOL"   , "14" );
 
  define( "YCOL1"  , "10"  );
  define( "YCOL2"  , "4"  );    // 7
  define( "YCOL3"  , ""   );	// "5"
  define( "YCOL4"  , ""   );    // "6"
 
  define( "LEGEND1", "Cont. USA" );
  define( "LEGEND2", "Global (-70.0/82.5)"  );
  define( "LEGEND3", "-20.0/20.0 MID"  );
  define( "LEGEND4", "20.0/82.5 NH"   );
 
  //
  //  +------ Inserted column with seqiential row numbering
  //  |
  //  |       Added column for eventual creation of decimal year from a year and month column -------------+
  //  |       Added column for eventual sum of columns -----------------------------------------------+    |
  //  |                                                                                               |    |
  // Rec year  mon  -70.0/   -20.0/    20.0/   -70.0/    60.0/   -70.0/    Cont.      0.0/    -70.0/ sum/ Dec-
 
  //                 82.5     20.0     82.5    -20.0     82.5    -60.0     USA       82.5       0.0  4-12 year
 
  //     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
  //  0  1979  1   -0.227   -0.249   -0.404   -0.011   -0.139   -0.212   -3.248   -0.315   -0.134
 
  //  1  1979  2   -0.125   -0.024   -0.197   -0.165   -1.830   -0.560   -2.102   -0.112   -0.139
  //
  //  Column numbers after temporary conversion as used with definitions
  //  1   2    3     4        5        6        7        8        9        10        11       12      13   14
  //
 
 
  // Data are from:
  // ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/monthly_time_series/rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_2.txt
 

 

The resulting graph looks like this:

glob-vs-usa-201010
 

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