Recent global warming as confirmed by AIRS
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2019-04-17
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J. Susskind, G. A. Schmidt, J. N. Lee and L Iredell, Recent global warming as confirmed by AIRS, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, Number 4, 2019, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafd4e
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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. law.
Abstract
This paper presents Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder (AIRS) surface skin temperature anomalies for
the period 2003 through 2017, and compares them to station-based analyses of surface air temperature
anomalies (principally the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis
(GISTEMP)). The AIRS instrument flies on EOS Aqua, which was launched in 2002 and became stable
in September 2002. AIRS surface temperatures are completely satellite-based and are totally
independent of any surface-based measurements.Weshow in this paper that satellite-based surface
temperatures can serve as an important validation of surface-based estimates and help to improve
surface-based data sets in a way that can be extended back many decades to further scientific research.
AIRS surface temperatures have better spatial coverage than those of GISTEMP, though at the global
annual scale the two data sets are highly coherent. As in the surface-based analyses, 2016 was the
warmest year yet.