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Global annual surface air temperature change

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Catalog Last Checked: April 21, 2026 at 07:56 PM | Dataset Last Updated: August 08, 2016
The data are maintained by NASA (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/) and provides an estimate of global annual surface air temperature change expressed as temperature anomaly in degrees Celsius. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: It is secondary data. It can be accessed through the following means: The data are maintained by NASA (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). Format: The dataset is secondary data gathered from the NASA site (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/) and can be downloaded in a variety of formats including *.txt and *.csv. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Ahmad, N., S. Derrible, T. Eason, and H. Cabezas. Using Fisher information to track stability in multivariate systems. Royal Society Open Science. Royal Society Publishing, London, UK, 01-08, (2016).

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