The phrase "average land temperature" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or environmental contexts when discussing climate data or trends related to temperature measurements on land.
Example: "The study revealed that the average land temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past century."
Alternatives: "mean land temperature" or "typical land temperature".
Berkeley Earth, a team of scientists I helped establish, found that the average land temperature had risen 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 250 years.
A new study designed to address critiques of climate science by skeptics has confirmed that "global warming is real" and that the world's average land temperature has risen by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the mid-1950s.
Our result would peg the average land temperature change during the 1810s as about -0.7 C (+/- 0.4 C at 95%) relative to the 19th century average, which is broadly consistent with prior estimates.
As we noted on the blog on Thursday, a new study intended to address critiques of climate science by skeptics has confirmed that "global warming is real" and the world's average land temperature has risen by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the mid-1950s.
The average land temperature in Europe increased by 1.3°C during the twentieth century, with a particularly steep rise between 1990 2009 [25].
A recent pause in the rise of global average land temperatures "appears to be related to cyclic changes in the oceans and in the sun's energy output," it says.
Average land temperatures have increased in Australia over the last half century and are predicted to increase by a further 1°C by 2030.
When the coverage of ecological land exceeded 70% (25 km2) of the total land area, the cooling efficiency of this landscape type was relatively obvious, and the shape index and fragmentation index of landscape configuration both had a significantly positive correlation (0.594 and 0.510 Pearson's coefficients, respectively) with average land surface temperature.
The Pearson's coefficient between the ecological land proportion and the average land surface temperature was 0.614 (P < 0.01); this value was higher than that for the effects of the spatial configuration, indicating that landscape composition affects the thermal environment more than does spatial configuration.
Figure 3 at second row second column shows an example of MODIS Average Land Surface Temperature accessed by WMS [26].
An analysis of surface temperatures from Berkeley Earth, an independent team of scientists, also concluded the November average global land temperature was the warmest on record.
