Southern Hemisphere temperature anomalies 1850-2022

Source: R/datasets.R

Annual average sea surface temperature anomalies (from the 1961-1990 average) for the Southern Hemisphere for 1850-2022.

sea_temps

Format

A dataframe with 173 rows and 2 columns:

  • year: the year.

  • temp: the temperature anomaly in degrees C.

Source

Kennedy, J. J., Rayner, N. A., Atkinson, C. P., & Killick, R. E. (2019). An ensemble data set of sea surface temperature change from 1850: The Met Office Hadley Centre HadSST.4.0.0.0 data set. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 7719 - 7763. doi:10.1029/2018JD029867 .

Examples

# Extract data from 1946-2022
s46 <- sea_temps[sea_temps$year> 1945, ]
plot(s46, ylab = "temperature difference (degrees C)")