A silky duster is the perfect layer pieces between the morning and
afternoon temperature changes.
Not exact matches
On this
afternoon, Andy and his friend, veterinary technician Avi Solomon, felt a
change in
temperature and moisture creep over them, the cool spring air suddenly turning muggy and 30 degrees warmer.
The most important bias in the U.S.
temperature record occurred with the systematic
change in observing times from the
afternoon, when it is warm, to morning, when it is cooler.
With the onslaught of fall — the colors, the autumnal activities, the brisk
temperatures (ones we're just barely now reaching in New York...), comes the onslaught of, «it's 49 degrees this morning and 71 degrees this
afternoon, what in climate
change's name do I wear?»
On top of this, you have the
changing conditions from the middle of the night to the heat of the
afternoon that can result in a 70 - degree swing in track
temperature.
Scientists have also had to correct for a drastic
change in the time of day
temperatures were recorded (for whatever reason, past
temperatures were recorded in the
afternoon, but are now often collected in the morning).
The most important bias in the U.S.
temperature record occurred with the systematic
change in observing times from the
afternoon, when it is warm, to morning, when it is cooler.
Between 1960 and today, the majority of stations switched from a late
afternoon to an early morning observation time, resulting a systemic
change (and resulting bias) in
temperature observations.
Adjustments to U.S.
temperatures are dominated by two large non-random systemic biases:
changes from
afternoon to morning observation times, and the CRS to MMTS transition.
Toiling away at the day job this
afternoon, I had a spare moment to pen this whine about the ruckus over the past several days about Tim Barnett's new work on ocean
temperatures and climate
change.
You'd hardly notice that
change in an
afternoon, but in terms of global mean
temperature it's the difference between what we have now and mile - high ice sheets covering large portions of the northern hemisphere.