A Dynamically Consistent ENsemble of Temperature at the Earth surface since 1850 from the DCENT dataset

Chan, Duo; Gebbie, Geoffrey; Huybers, Peter; Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247. 2024 A Dynamically Consistent ENsemble of Temperature at the Earth surface since 1850 from the DCENT dataset. Scientific Data, 11 (1). 10.1038/s41597-024-03742-x

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Abstract/Summary

Accurate historical records of Earth’s surface temperatures are central to climate research and policy development. Widely-used estimates based on instrumental measurements from land and sea are, however, not fully consistent at either global or regional scales. To address these challenges, we develop the Dynamically Consistent ENsemble of Temperature (DCENT), a 200-member ensemble of monthly surface temperature anomalies relative to the 1982–2014 climatology. Each DCENT member starts from 1850 and has a 5° × 5° resolution. DCENT leverages several updated or recently-developed approaches of data homogenization and bias adjustments: an optimized pairwise homogenization algorithm for identifying breakpoints in land surface air temperature records, a physics-informed inter-comparison method to adjust systematic offsets in sea-surface temperatures recorded by ships, and a coupled energy balance model to homogenize continental and marine records. Each approach was published individually, and this paper describes a combined approach and its application in developing a gridded analysis. A notable difference of DCENT relative to existing temperature estimates is a cooler baseline for 1850–1900 that implies greater historical warming.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1038/s41597-024-03742-x
ISSN:	2052-4463
Date made live:	10 Sep 2024 13:28 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537996

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1038/s41597-024-03742-x

ISSN:

2052-4463

Date made live:

10 Sep 2024 13:28 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537996