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Global Temperature Anomalies, May 2010
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Published June 25, 2010
This color-coded map shows global temperatures for May 2010. Although cool conditions prevailed in some heavily populated areas, warm conditions predominated, especially near the poles.
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2009 Ends Warmest Decade on Record
Published January 23, 2010
These maps illustrate just how much warmer temperatures were in 2009 and the decade (2000-2009) compared to average temperatures recorded between 1951 and 1980.
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2008 Global Temperature
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Published January 21, 2009
Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, but it was still in the top ten warmest years since the start of record-keeping in 1880. Most of Europe, Russia, and the Arctic were warmer than average, while much of the Pacific Ocean was cooler than usual.
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Global Temperature Anomalies: 2007
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Published January 24, 2008
Despite that a moderately strong La Niña event put a chill on the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the Sun was near a low in its 11-year cycle of variability, global average surface temperature in 2007 was still tied for the second warmest year in the instrumental record.
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Historic Tropical Cyclone Tracks
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Published November 2, 2006
Like streamers of splattered paint, the tracks of nearly 150 years of tropical cyclones weave across the globe in this map.
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Bathymetry
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Published July 21, 2005
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