Sentences with phrase «bucket corrections»

ClimateAudit had absolutely no role in pushing the science of bucket corrections and temperature measurements any better.

The dominant bias uncertainties are those due to bucket correction [Rayner et al., 2006] and thermometer exposure changes [Parker, 1994] both of which are large before the 1940s.

Removing the bucket correction from SST records shows this blip loud and clear, as does the Quatsino record.

The correct answer is that the bucket correction only affects old data more than 60 years back in time..

The bucket correction factors were derived experimentally, so I feel pretty good about the bulk correction factors prior to 1940 and it is an upwards correction, so it should make warming look less alarming.

Having read further, am I right in my belief that the bucket correction was applied simply because there was a big temperature uptick around 1940, and instrument error seems a good way of explaining it?

There is a big shift from buckets to engine room intakes in 1941 - 1942; this is the «bucket correction» implemented in existing datasets such as HadSST2.

The HadSST2 record included a «bucket correction» for data collected before 1942, to correct for a known cool bias in the data.

Although much smaller than the bucket corrections, these adjustments have led Congressman Lamar Smith to subpoena NOAA scientists demanding access to their emails.