Exploring Climate Data (Part 3)

post by Nadja Kutz

This blog article is about the temperature data used in the reports of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I present the results of an investigation into the completeness of global land surface temperature records. There are noticeable gaps in the data records, but I leave discussion about the implications of these gaps to the readers.

The data used in the newest IPCC report, namely the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is, as it seems, at the time of writing no...