They found that unusual behavior in the troposphere was associated with similar anomalies in the stratosphere that occurred 25 days earlier. (scientificamerican.com)
Horn - shaped models were suggested in the 1990s to fit a similar anomaly seen by the COBE satellite, but Steiner's group is the first to show that this idea fits the WMAP data. (newscientist.com)
That is to say, that if a station in Tennessee has a particular warm or cool month, it is likely that temperatures in New Jersey say, also had a similar anomaly. (realclimate.org)