Alaska Climatology - Climate Trends
Climate of Alaska
Temperature
Humidity
Precipitation
Cloudiness
Pressure
Wind
Climographs
Climate extremes
Climate trends
Observing stations
Fairbanks area
Monthly Summary
Sunrise / Sunset
When investigating climate trends it is important to note that changes occur over varying temporal and spatial scales, and are often non-linear. One can summarize the long-term trend, but must keep in mind the variability within a given temporal scale. Detecting a change in climate is not a simple task because observed parameters often respond to oscillations in the large-scale atmospheric circulation pattern, which have time scales ranging from months to decades. Therefore, one must keep these factors in mind when interpreting time series data.

Temporal trends of temperature and precipitation are available for the first-order observing stations in Alaska for the period 1950 - 2002. Click on the station below for links to data and graphics.
Arctic Barrow Bristol Bay King Salmon
Southcentral Kodiak
Valdez
Yakutat
Interior Bettles
Big Delta
Fairbanks
Mcgrath
Cook Inlet Anchorage
Homer
Talkeetna
West Bethel
Kotzebue
Nome
Copper River Gulkana
Southwest Cold Bay
St. Paul
Southeast Annette
Juneau