How much colder was this week?

• Main Author: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Other Authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2012
• Subjects: Educação Superior::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::Geociências::Climatologia; Educação Básica::Ensino Médio::Geografia::Questões ambientais; sociais e econômicas; Average temperature; Weather; Arctic
• Online Access: http://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/123456789/46756; http://objetoseducacionais2.mec.gov.br/handle/mec/21546

This image uses data from the NOAA/NCEP Daily Reanalysis of surface air temperature to compare the average temperature of December 1-7, 2010 to the 1968-1996 average temperature for the same week. Blue regions indicate cooler-than-average temperatures; reds indicate warmer-than-average temperatures. Though the Arctic chill has overtaken the Eastern U.S. and Northern and Western Europe, much of the remainder of the globe experienced average or warmer-than-average temperatures Educação Superior::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::GeoCiências Ensino Médio::Geografia