Where can I find global heat charts for the earth?

Question

Information on my needs for the chart:

Don't give me Gore's phony chart.

I need satalite not land based readings.

It needs to go up to 2008, starting from at least 1998, the latest one's ive seen are only up to 2007.

I need a chart with all theese specs for a project i'm doing

So, yeah...

Answer 1

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

heaps of graphs here with the data but it dose not have purely satalite based readings.

Answer 2

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.c...

Answer 3

I have noticed that most people, bob does this a lot, point to GISS as there reference to climate change. This is the only indicator out of the four which does not show a flat line on temperature increase, but please keep in mind that GISS takes 1950-1980 as their reference period and not 1960-1990 as the others do. If you readjust GISS to use the same time period you would see a similar flat line for the last 10 years.

GISS

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.c...

UAH

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.c...

RSS

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.c...

HadCRUT

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.c...

The data for these charts are here:

GISS

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabled...

UAH

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t...

RSS

ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/monthly_time_seri...

HadCRUT

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/dia...

Answer 4

Gee, I wonder why you want it to start in 1998...

Anyway, since satellites don't actually measure temperature (they measure radiances in various wavelength bands which are then converted into temperature estimates by various different methods), there are several different groups who put together satellite temperature records. Here's the data from the two best known of these groups:

UAH (University of Alabama at Huntsville):

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/

RSS (Remote Sensing Systems):

http://www.remss.com/msu/msu_data_descri...

Both records go back several decades. None of them end in 2008 because 2008 isn't over yet, so we can't possibly measure what it's average temperature was like (although you can make a chart of the monthly anomalies, in which case you can use data through March 2008).

Knock yourself out.