1978-2005 TIME SERIES OF MONTHLY AVERAGES OF MSU CH2 BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES ARE BASED 
ON THREE PUBLISHED PAPERS:

1. Vinnikov and Grody (2003) in Science;
2. Grody et al. (2004) in JGR;
3. Vinnikov et al. (2006) in JGR. 

The reprints can be obtained from the "Recent publications" list in 
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~kostya/

Compared to Vinnikov et al.(2006) this data is updated to December 2005.

DESCRIPTION OF FILES:

The ASCII files:
year.ymon.global, year.yamon.global, year.yemon.global, year.ymon.zon.*, year.yamon.zon.*, year.yemon.zon.* 
have 13 colunms: 
1 is year number, 2-13 are monthly averages in K.
-999 is code of missed data

				
year.ymon.*		monthly averages, K		
year.yamon.*	anomalies of monthly averages, K		
year.yemon.*	time dependent expected value of monthly averages, K			
						   
Time series of zonal and global averages are:

year.*.zon.1 is 80S  (75-82.5S)
year.*.zon.2 is 70S  (65-75S)
................
year.*.zon.9 is Equator (5S-5N)
................
year.*.zon.16 is 70S  (65-75N)
year.*.zon.17 is 80S  (75-82.5N)

year.*.global is Global average (-/+82.5N)

File ZONAL.TRENDS.1978-2005.txt contain estimates of annual zonal and global trends,
	their RMSE and Standard Deviations of residuals
	
The files: fig6.eps and fig7.eps are updated Figures 6 & 7 from 	Vinnikov et al. (2006).
	


Konstantin Vinnikov and Norman Grody   9/06/2006.