FEBRUARY HIT SATELLITE TEMPERATURES OUT OF THE PARK

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By Roger Coppock

March 4, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- The sum of a strong El Nino and the effect of man's greenhouse gas emissions drove February 2016 global land and sea Troposphere temperatures to a 37-year record. 

Remote Sensing Systems reports a February land and sea monthly reading from the lower troposphere of 0.974K, significantly higher than any other reading on the 37-year and 2-month long data set.  The extreme upper right of the graph below represents the February record.



Data source:

http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_3.txt

An explanation of how satellites take our planet's temperature is at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements


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