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Central England Temperature

Filed in Notes, ILT on September 4th 05 .

Mean annual temperature in central england from 1659 to 2003 shown as a line graph

  • The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research keeps records on the average temperature for Central England
  • Central England Temperature is representative of a roughly triangular area enclosed by Bristol, Manchester and London
  • The centre has established a record extending back to 1659 with monthly figures
  • A data set showing an 8 year moving average of differences from the mean temperature in the period 1961 to 2003 is available for download from The Environment Agency
  • More details of the CET are available from The Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
  • A table showing monthly temperatures from 1990 is available on the CRU Web site

Your turn

  1. Download the data from the Environment Agency – it is available as an Excel spreadsheet – and plot your own line graph
  2. Describe the trend shown in the Excel spreadsheet in words – just a short sentence suitable for a non-specialist audience

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