Introduction to Modern Climate Change
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Third edition

Data for end-of-chapter problems

Data providers occasionally move their files, so it's possible a link here is broken. If you find one, please email me to let me know.

Chapter 2  ·  Berkeley Earth

The chapter 2 problems use data from Berkeley Earth. Their main data page is the place to start if a specific link below has moved.

2.7
Annual land and ocean summary

Opens in Excel. Annual global average temperatures plus a smoothed series that filters out short-term variability. Two versions — air temperature above sea ice, or water temperature below it. They're quite similar and it doesn't really matter which you use.

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2.8
Monthly land and ocean, complete

Monthly and global averages with annual, 5-, 10-, and 20-year smoothed series, plus uncertainties. Same two sea-ice versions.

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2.10
Station list

Individual station records.

web ↗
2.12
Annual land temperature, adjusted

The raw, unadjusted version is here.

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Chapter 5  ·  NOAA

5.9
NOAA greenhouse gas data

Select your station, then the gas you want to look at, then time series.

noaa.gov ↗