Sentences with phrase «areal weighted»

The only thing which might possibly refer to a multiplication factor here is in point 2), a «global areal weighted average».

Here the adjustment is determined by (1) calculating the collocated ship - buoy SST difference over the global ocean from 1982 - 2012, (2) calculating the global areal weighted average of ship - buoy SST difference, (3) applying a 12 - month running filter to the global averaged ship - buoy SST difference, and (4) evaluating the mean difference and its STD of ship - buoy SSTs based on the data from 1990 to 2012 (the data are noisy before 1990 due to sparse buoy observations).

I'd guess that there has been some sort of areal weighting so that no matter how many stations / km ^ 2 there are, the global # (s) is (are) not biased by local data collection intensity.