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Constraining the global mean surface temperature during 1850-1880 with new statistical physical model

Authors :
Li, Qingxiang
Li, Zichen
Li, Xuqian
Hu, Zengyun
Dai, Aiguo
Dong, Wenjie
Huang, Boyin
Jiang, Zhihong
Zhai, Panmao
Zhou, Tianjun
Jones, Phil
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

As IPCC ARs stated, global warming is estimated based on the average from 1850 to 1900 (global average temperature of preindustrialization estimated from relatively sparse observations). Given the impossibility of massive increasing observation data in the early stages, accurately constraining this baseline has become an unresolved issue. Here we developed a new statistical physical model to quantify the contribution of external forcings to global warming as a "deterministic trend" of the surface temperature series (instead of as non-stationary processes that yield a stochastic trend) and constrained the reconstruction of the early time series (1850-1880). We find that the existing datasets slightly overestimated the temperature anomalies in this period, thus the speed of global warming since pre-industrialization is still underestimated.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2308.04465
Document Type :
Working Paper