The Use of Greenhouse Gases as Climate Proxy Data in Interpreting Climatic Variability

Oluseyi Enitan Ogunsola, Ezekiel Oluyemi Oladiran

Department of Physics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

DOI: 10.4236/acs.2013.31002                

Abstract

Greenhouse gas data were utilized as proxy data in interpreting climate variability. These greenhouse gases were related to temperature records using standard deviation (SD) as the transfer function based on observed correlations between them and global warming records. The annual SD used as warming index for the concentrations of these greenhouse gases for the period 1996 to 2005 at the various stations considered showed good correlation with 1998 as the warmest for these stations.

Keywords

Greenhouse Gases; Proxy Data; Global Warming

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	T. Yeh and C. Fu, “Climatic Change—A Global Multidisciplinary Theme,” In: T. F. Malone and J. G. Roederer, Eds., ICSU: Global Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 127-145.
[2]	IPCC, “Scientific Assessment of Climate Change Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report. WMO—UNEP,” Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
[3]	G. R. McGregor and S. Nieuwolt, “Tropical Climatology,” John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 1998.
[4]	H. Le Treut, R. Somerville, U. Cubasch, Y. Ding, C. Mauritzen, A. Mokssit, T. Peterson and M. Prather, “Historical Overview of Climate Change,” In: S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Avergt, M. Tiguor and H. L. Miller, Eds., Climate Change (2007): The Physical Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2007.
[5]	National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Paleoclimatology Program, “Introduction to Paleoclimatology,” 2002. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo /paleo.proxy data.html
[6]	A. Solow, and A. Huppert, “Optimal Multiproxy Reconstruction Reconstruction of Sea Surface Temperature from Corals,” Paleoceanography, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2004. doi:10.1029/2003PA000980
[7]	K. L. De Long, T. M. Quinn and F. W. Taylor, “Reconstructing Twentieth-Century Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the South West Pacific: A Replication Study Using Multiple Coral Sr/Ca Records from New Caledonia,” Paleoceanography, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2007. doi:10.1029/2007PA001444
[8]	Farlix Inc., “Anthropogenic Global Warming,” 2008. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/about.htm
[9]	D. H. McIntosh and A. S. Thom, “Essentials of Meteorology,” Wykeham Publishing Ltd., London, 1973.
[10]	O. E. Ogunsola and E. O. Oladiran, “Models of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations over Tropical Africa Using Auto-Regressive Moving Average Approach,” Journal of Science Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2011, pp. 80-89.
[11]	D. R. Stang, “Trends in Atmospheric Methane,” Zipcodezoo.com the Bay Science Foundation Inc., 2009. http//zipcodezoo.com/