Annual Mean Temperature 1900-2017

Name Annual Mean Temperature 1900-2017
Units celsius
Minimum Value -55.60 celsius
Maximum Value 33.80 celsius
Source Climatic Research Unit
Description Annual Daily mean temperature 1900-2017. Station anomalies (from 1961 to 1990 means) were interpolated into 0.5° latitude/longitude grid cells covering the global land surface (excluding Antarctica), and combined with an existing climatology to obtain absolute monthly values.
Citation Harris, I., Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J. and Lister, D.H. (2014), Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset. International Journal of Climatology 34, 623-642 doi:10.1002/joc.3711 (click doi to access paper)