It is based largely on a close - grained analysis of masses of sea surface and
air temperature data collected over the century.
Not exact matches
By contrast, weather forecasting that leverages «
data science»
collects a vast amount of historical information on
air,
temperature, and humidity, and assesses the relationship between those measurements and actual past events, such as whether or not a storm occurred.
John, it appears to this layman onlooker that in this case (and probably in many, many others) the thermometer
data is being put to uses never originally intended, to wit, to measure «global warming» as evidenced by a hacked - together «global thermometer grid» that does not and was never intended to
collect the «pure» ambient
air temperatures of the locations where the thermometers have been placed.
In contrast, meteorological
data collected from three nearby coastal stations (Brevoort Island, Cape Dyer, and Resolution Island) between 1950 and 1992 indicated that the mean minimum and maximum
air temperatures for the month of April are normally 10 - 20 °C cooler than the averages we recorded at our camp.