Earth is warming rapidly, but there is too little observational data in some regions like the Arctic and high-altitude areas like the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. It is thus difficult to assess temperature variations accurately around the globe. To better understand how temperatures have increased, an international team led by researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University in China has released a newly merged global surface temperature dataset, including reconstructed land and marine measurements from the 1850s to 2018. The study provides evidence that there was a consistent increased warming trend compared with previous estimations, which closely matches the available observational data and updated simulations covering the past two decades.
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Source: Phys.org