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Global Temperature Patterns In Past Centuries: An Interactive Presentation, Michael E. Mann, Ed Gille, Raymond S. Bradley, Malcolm K. Hughes, Jonathan Overpeck, Frank T. Keimig, Wendy Gross

Raymond S Bradley

The recent availability of global networks of annual or seasonal resolution proxy data, combined with the few long instrumental and historical climate records available during the past few centuries, make it possible now to reconstruct annual and seasonal spatial patterns of temperature variation, as well as hemispheric, global-mean, and regional temperature trends, several centuries back in time. Reconstructions of large-scale global or hemispheric trends during centuries past can place the instrumental assessments of climate during the twentieth century in a longer-term perspective and provide more robust evidence regarding the roles of potential climate forcings over time. The reconstructed spatial patterns …