The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center has released its latest visualization of five-year average global temperature anomalies from 1881 to 2009. When you check out the website from the link below, you will find more images and movies. The image to the right shows the global average of temperatures from 1995 through 1999.
Obviously the red in the picture indicates warmer than baseline temperatures while blue indicates cooler than baseline temperatures. From the website:
Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements (since the late 1800s), was 2005. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2009.
via : Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2009 for Science On a Sphere
