Author Archives: EarthNow Team
May 2012 Second Warmest on Record
After the fifth warmest April on record, the combined global land and ocean temperature for May 2012 was 0.66°C (1.19°F) above the 20thcentury average of 14.8°C (58.6°F), making it the 2nd warmest May on record (since 1880), only behind May 2010. Continue reading
New Sea Surface Temperature Dataset!
As Dan Pisut mentioned a little while ago, the real-time Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset for Science On a Sphere has been tweaked a bit, having a new color scale and higher definition, both providing for more detail. Well, now that the new real-time SST visualization has some more detail, we thought it would be good to go into a little detail about what you are seeing via EarthNow. Continue reading
April 2012 Climate Digest
Each month, around the 20th of the month, we will provide information regarding the previous month’s climate. Overall, preliminary data analysis suggests that April 2012 was the 5th warmest March on record (since 1880). Major stories include a warm contiguous United States and the end of La Niña. Continue reading
