Stacked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/warming_stripes" class="extiw" title="w:warming stripes">warming stripes</a>  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_visualization" class="extiw" title="w:data visualization">data visualization</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hawkins_(scientist)" class="extiw" title="w:Ed Hawkins (scientist)">Ed Hawkins (scientist)</a>, showing changes in temperature in different layers of earth's atmosphere (1979- )
<ul><li>I, uploader RCraig09, enlarged legends and added other legends to Ed Hawkins' original to form this uploaded version.</li></ul><p><i>General notes:</i>
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<ul><li><i>Credit for general concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/warming_stripes" class="extiw" title="w:warming stripes">warming stripes</a>:</i> climate scientist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hawkins_(scientist)" class="extiw" title="w:Ed Hawkins (scientist)">Ed Hawkins (scientist)</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Reading" class="extiw" title="w:University of Reading">University of Reading</a>, U.K.</li>
<li>Data values are visualized using color rather than locations of points on a graph.</li>
<li>Horizontal scale is time</li>
<li>Data is global (not for a locality).</li>
<li>Original source states: LICENSE / Creative Commons License / These blog pages &amp; images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.</li></ul>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hawkins_(scientist)" class="extiw" title="w:Ed Hawkins (scientist)">Ed Hawkins (scientist)</a>, climate scientist at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Reading" class="extiw" title="w:University of Reading">University of Reading</a>
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Hawkins, Ed, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190912192530/http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2019/atmospheric-temperature-trends/">Atmospheric temperature trends</a>. <i>Climate Lab Book</i> (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2019-09-12">12 September 2019</span>). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2019/atmospheric-temperature-trends/">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2019-09-12">12 September 2019</span>.