Standardized Change in Monthly Surface Air Temperature Anomaly from Previous Month

This map displays the standardized difference in CAMS monthly gridded surface air temperature anomaly from the previous month.

The change in surface air temperature anomaly from the previous month is computed and divided by the standard deviation of the change over the base period. Contours are drawn at intervals of 0.5 standard deviations starting at +/- 1 standard deviations. Shading also starts at +/- 1 standard deviations, with shades of blue indicating a decrease of the anomaly from the previous month and shades of red indicating an increase of the anomaly from the previous month. The map is based upon the CAMS gridded surface air temperature anomaly dataset.

"CAMS" is an acronym for the "Climate Anomaly Monitoring System" in use at the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) at the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Dataset Documentation

Standardized Change in Monthly Surface Air Temperature Anomaly from Previous Month

Data

CPC CAMS gridded monthly surface air temperature anomaly values at 2.0° lat/lon resolution

Data Source

NOAA NCEP Climate Prediction Center

Analysis

Standardized change of monthly surface air temperature anomaly using 1971-2000 base period

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