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Central England Temperature series

Filed in Maths on March 13th 06 .

Central England Temperature Series yearly means from 1800 to 2005 rough plot in Excel

Notice any trend? Upwards? Downwards? Part of a sine wave of longish period? Scribble an idea now, then compare with the full series.

The chart above (shown without axes on purpose) is a plot of the yearly mean temperature from 1800 to 2005 taken from the Central England Temperature series. The series extends from 1659, as reconstructed by Professor Gordon Manley. Some links…

  • Datasets/UK Climate/Central England Temperature
  • UK Met Office Hadley Centre page
Handy for those moving averages….

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