A large discontinuity in the mid-twentieth century in observed global-mean surface temperature

By D. Thompson, J. Kennedy, J. Wallace, Peter G. Jones. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Trend analysis of climate time series: A review of methods (2019, methodology): “However, the consultation of the metadata (Thompson et al., 2008) shows that the method to measure the temperature of the upper meters of the sea changed during World War II.”
Decadal prediction skill in a multi-model ensemble (2012, background): “…persistence of the global SST combined with the evolution of ENSO, which can be predicted well for the half year starting in November (r=0.94 ± 0.04, see also van Oldenborgh et al 2005a) and has a large influence on the global mean temperature 3–6 months later (r≈0.7, see e.g. Thompson et al 2008).”
The Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3): Description and Evaluation (2020, background): “The cooling trend in observation is mainly due to the natural external forcing (e.g., solar irradiation and natural aerosols) and/or internal variability associated with atmosphere‐ocean interactions (Thompson et al., 2008; Wang & Dickinson, 2013).”
Dynamically and Kinematically Consistent Global Ocean Circulation and Ice State Estimates (2013, background): “…in the literature—that spurious trends and values are artifacts of changing observation systems (see, e.g., Elliott and Gaffen, 1991; Marshall et al., 2002; Thompson et al., 2008)—the reanalyses are rarely used appropriately, meaning with the recognition that they are subject to large errors.”
Causes of climate change over the historical record (2019, background): “(Thompson et al., 2008); and ongoing offsets due to differences in observing fleets (Chan and Huybers, 2019).”
Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications (2010, background): “The latter effects the cloud formation and, therefore, the global climate (Tinsley, 2008).”
A call for new approaches to quantifying biases in observations of sea-surface temperature (2017, background): “(2015) bias estimate is an explicit accounting for the ship–buoy bias, due to warming of ship ERI temperatures (Thompson et al. 2008).”
Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale (2011, background): “Choice of this period avoids problems with observational SST data in the 1940s [Thompson et al., 2008].”
GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE (2010, background): “None of the available data sets corrects as yet for the known data inhomogeneity at the end of World War II [Thompson et al., 2008], a flaw that is likely to be improved upon soon.”