<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes" class="extiw" title="w:Warming stripes">Warming stripes</a> graphic depicting annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization" class="extiw" title="w:World Meteorological Organization">World Meteorological Organization</a> data)), said in the reference to have been produced for  the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) provisional State of the Climate report
<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 Ed Hawkins, <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, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right).</li>
<li>Data is global (not for a locality).</li></ul>
Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at <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/20190417024828/http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/2018-visualisation-update/">2018 visualisation update / Warming stripes for 1850-2018 using the WMO annual global temperature dataset.</a>. <i>Climate Lab Book</i> (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2018-12-04">4 December 2018</span>). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/2018-visualisation-update/">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2019-04-17">17 April 2019</span>. "LICENSE / Creative Commons License / These blog pages &amp; images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190403013148/http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/files/2018/12/wmo_stripes.png">Direct link to image</a>).