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RECOMMENDATION ITU-R P.1510 ANNUAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE

(Question ITU-R 201/3) (2001)

The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly, considering a) that information on annual mean surface temperature is needed for propagation modelling purposes; b) that the information is needed for all locations of the globe, especially when regional or continental calculations are necessary, recommends 1 that the data in Annex 1 be used to obtain the annual mean surface temperature when no local data are available. For easy reference the data are also shown in Fig. 1.

ANNEX 1 1 Surface mean annual temperature

The data file ESATEMP.TXT contains the annual mean surface temperature (C) at 2 m above the surface of the Earth with a resolution of 1.5 in both latitude and longitude. The companion data files ESALAT.TXT and ESALON.TXT contain respectively the latitudes and longitudes of the corresponding entries (gridpoints) in data file ESATEMP.TXT. The data are from 0 to 360 in longitude and from +90 to 90 in latitude. For a location different from the gridpoints, the temperature at the desired location can be derived by performing a bi-linear interpolation on the values at the four closest grid points. The data files can be obtained from the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau (BR).

FIGURE 1 Annual mean surface temperature (C)

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