Worldwide marine temperature fluctuations 1856–1981

By C. Folland, D. Parker, F. Kates. 1984

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Trend analysis of climate time series: A review of methods (2019, background): “3 C, which corresponds to the rough bias estimate of SST made by Folland et al. (1984). The WLS results are as follows.”
Arctic-North Atlantic Interactions and Multidecadal Variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (2005, background): “At longer time scales, however, the SST anomaly pattern is characterized by a more homogeneous pattern with anomalies of one sign in the North Atlantic and of opposite sign south of the equator (e.g., Folland et al. 1984; Delworth and Mann 2000).”
Reconstructing, Monitoring, and Predicting Multidecadal-Scale Changes in the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation with Sea Surface Temperature (2004, background): “The existence of multidecadal SST variability with opposite signs in the North and South Atlantic and its impact on Sahelian rainfall was described by Folland et al. (1984, 1986).”
A call for new approaches to quantifying biases in observations of sea-surface temperature (2017, methodology): “Folland et al. (1984) applied first-order SST bias adjustments, adding a constant value of 0.3°C to observations made before 1942, based on the difference between global night marine air temperature (NMAT) and SST.”