The phrase
"balloon measurements" refers to estimating or guessing measurements without using precise tools. It means making rough or approximate calculations rather than exact ones.
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Weather balloon measurements and other data showed that last September, the ozone hole was 4 million square kilometers smaller than its peak size.
Since then, satellite reading of temperatures and the occlusion of numerous infrared bands, ground based, aircraft and
balloon measurements of same, and an ever - increasing data base of the optical properties of CO2 (and other gases, like water vapour), have helped refine radiation calculations towards determining the atmospheric heat budget.
Satellites and weather
balloon measurements show that the stratosphere, the layer from 10 to 50 kilometres above the Earth, is indeed cooling (although this is partly due to the depletion of the ozone layer).
«The Kyoto Protocol has no environmental benefits; natural variability, not fossil fuel emissions, is the overwhelming factor influencing climate change; satellite data, confirmed by
NOAA balloon measurements, confirms that no meaningful warming has occurred over the last century; and climate models predicting dramatic temperature increases over the next 100 years are flawed and highly imperfect.»
Kevin Hamilton and Chunxi Zhang at the University of Hawaii then checked
other balloon measurements from various sites in the tropics and found they showed the first signs of the same irregularity.
Pilot balloon measurements during BoDEx point to a marked diurnal cycle in the wind speed such that the LLJ accelerates over a near frictionless inversion by night but is mixed down to the surface by extreme radiative heating through modification of eddy viscosity to produce a surface - wind - speed maximum by ≈ 1100 local time (32).
Comparison of the experimental
weather balloon measurements to our two - phase regime for the 23rd May, 2011 (12:00 UTC), Albany, New York (USA) weather balloon.
Surface temperature measurements and satellite and
balloon measurements of the troposphere (higher up in the atmosphere) measure different things and they are subject to different problems.
You can chart
your balloon measurements if you wish, or measure the ice balls as they melt each day.
All told, stratospheric water vapor declined by 10 percent since 2000, based on satellite and
balloon measurements, yet that was enough to appreciably affect temperatures at ground level according to climate models.
snip ---- «Indeed, satellite and weather
balloon measurements have found little or no warming over the past 25 years, and other climate models project only modest warming»
The exact values we used for the fits varied from balloon to balloon, but in all cases
the balloon measurements could be fit using just two (or sometimes three) phases.
To calculate the molar densities from the weather
balloon measurements, we converted all of the pressures and temperatures into units of Pa and K, and then determined the values at each pressure using D = n / V =P / RT, where R is the ideal gas constant (8.314 J / K / mol)
One thing that is remarkably consistent for all of the weather
balloon measurements we analysed is that in each of the regions, the change of molar density with pressure is very linear.
This trend seemed to continue into the late 1990s and also seemed to be supported by
balloon measurements.
60 years would bring you back to the beginning of
the balloon measurement era but the alarmists don't want to use that.
If you look at satellite data and weather
balloon measurements, you then note that the temperature rise around the world is relatively modest, that it is much lower than the rise that is predicted for us by authorities, and that these predictions rely on calculations that are highly uncertain.