Sentences with phrase «average using rural»

2) Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications Charlotte Wickham1, Judith Curry2, Don Groom3, Robert Jacobsen3, 4, Richard Muller3, 4, Saul Perlmutter3, 4, Robert Rohde5, Arthur Rosenfeld3, Jonathan Wurtele3, 4

It was authored by Charlotte Wickham, Judith Curry, Don Groom, Robert Jacobsen, Richard Muller, Saul Perlmutter, Robert Rohde, Arthur Rosenfeld, and Jonathan Wurtele and is titled Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications.

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For example, as part of the ongoing, international Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, researchers used a dynamometer to measure grip strength in almost 140,000 adults in 17 countries, and they followed their health for an average of four years.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

Figure 12 compares the average U.S. temperature trends when calculated using just the most rural stations to the trends calculated using the most urban stations.

As an example suppose in 1950 50 % of the station used for computing a US temp average were rural, and 50 % urban with constant 3C UHI effect (not increasing as per Parker).

The mean daily temperature of the urban and rural areas is calculated using a representative sample of core sites, and the UHI magnitude (MUHI) is calculated as the difference in the group averages.

The Jones, peterson, parker approach has been to look at rural stations and urban stations that actually get used in the global average.

This may be the reason for eliminating all the rural 75 % of the met stations used, just to keep the average UHI in any subsequent studies within a certain range, so that the average could be seen as somehow plausible.

GISS methodology, as you've observed consists of using all rural stations within 1000 miles to adjust station data, then calculation of lots of little gridcells with more blending and averaging until, as you said appropriately, you felt like sticking knitting needles in your eyes.

In 2005, only 58 % of people living in rural areas and small towns used the Internet, well below the national average.