supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 41421004];the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China[grant numbers 2016YFA0601802 and 2015CB453202]
The global annual averaged Surface Air Temperature Anomaly (SATA) in 2015 and its rank in the historical instrumental records are analyzed using the CRU, NASA, and NOAA datasets. All datasets indicate that 2015 is t...