Upper Air ReportSeptember 2000

MSU Temperature

Global Lower Tropospheric Anomalies, September 2000
larger image		 Data collected by NOAA's TIROS-N polar-orbiting satellites and adjusted for time-dependent biases by NASA and the Global Hydrology and Climate Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville indicate that temperatures in the lower half of the atmosphere (lowest 8 km) were
-0.02C below the 20-year (1979-1998) average in September, the coolest such month since 1993. Temperatures were above average (+0.09C) in the Northern Hemisphere but were below average (-0.14C) south of the equator.

Citing This Report

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Monthly Upper Air Report for September 2000, published online October 2000, retrieved on July 19, 2025 from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/upper-air/200009. DOI: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00762