While continuous global measurements of most of these changes are not available through the 1961 - 2006 period, some humidity observations are available and do show upward trends over the continents. (newclimatemodel.com)
The Committee currently is working on the IPMS for residential property, and IPMS for industrial property and IPMS for retail property will round out the series of new global measurement standards. (nreionline.com)
The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau. (scientificamerican.com)