Authors
N Nicholls, GV Gruza, J Jouzel, TR Karl, LA Ogallo, DE Parker, JR Christy, J Eischeid, P Ya Groisman, M Hulme, PD Jones, RW Knight, JK Angelí, S Anjian, PA Arkin, RC Balling, M Yu Bardin, RG Barry, W Bomin, RS Bradley, KR Briffa, AM Carleton, DR Cayan, FHS Chiew, JA Church, ER Cook, TJ Crowley, RE Davis, NM Datsenko, B Dey, HE Diaz, Y Ding, W Drosdowsky, ML Duarte, JC Duplessy, DR Easterling, WP Elliott, B Findlay, H Flohn, CK Folland, R Franke, P Erich, DJ Gaffen, V Ya Georgievsky, BM Ginsburg, Ys Golubev, J Gould, NE Graham, D Gullet, S Hastenrath, A Henderson-Sellers, M Hoelzle, WD Hogg, GJ Holland, LC Hopkins, NN Ivachtchenko, D Karoly, RW Katz, W Kininmonth, NK Kononova, Lv Korovkina, G Kukla, CW Landsea, S Levitus, TJ Lewis, HE Lins, JM Lough, TA Mcmahon, L Malone, JA Marengo, E Mekis, A Meshcherskya, PJ Michaels, E Mosley-Thompson, SE Nicholson, J Oerlemans, G Ohring, GB Pant, TC Peterson, N Plummer, Eh Quinn, E Ya Ran'Kova, VN Razuvaev, EV Rocheva, CE Ropelewski, K Rupa Kumar, MJ Salinger, B Sauter, H Schmidt, E Semenyuk, La Shiklomanov, M Shinoda, Li Soldatova, DM Sonechkin, RW Spencer, N Speranskaya, A Sun, C Tsay, JE Walsh, B Wang, К Wang, MN Ward, SG Warren, Q Xu, T Yasunari
Publication date
1996
Journal
Climate change 1995-The science of climate change (IPCC)
Pages
137-192
Description
• The estimate of warming since the late 19th century has not significantly changed since the estimates in IPCC (1990) and IPCC (1992), although the data have been reanalysed, and more data are now available. Global surface temperatures have increased by about 0.3 to 0.6 C since the late-19th century, and by about 0.2 to 0.3 C over the last 40 years (the period with most credible data). The warming has not been globally uniform. Some areas have cooled. The recent warming has been greatest over the continents between 40 and 70 N.
• The general, but not global, tendency to reduced diurnal temperature range over land, at least since the middle of the 20th century, noted in IPCC (1992), has been confirmed with more data (representing more than 40% of the global land mass). The range has decreased in many areas because nights have warmed more than days. Cloud cover has increased in many of the areas with reduced diurnal temperature range. Minimum temperature increases have been about twice those in maximum temperatures.
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