Sentences with phrase «few measurement stations»

Both mostly use the same network of surface stations, but they differ in how they extrapolate temperature changes in areas with few measurement stations.

There are very few measurement stations in the Arctic over land and even fewer over the oceans.

Not exact matches

We were unaware of any other stations with daily measurements over a period of more than 80 years, with few missing values or large data gaps.

(1) In addition to the data of the near - surface temperatures, which are composed of measurements from weather stations and sea surface temperatures, there is also the microwave data from satellites, which can be used to estimate air temperatures in the troposphere in a few kilometers altitude.

Some regions have few temperature measurement stations (e.g., the Sahara Desert) and interpolation must be made over large, data - sparse regions.

re # 67 My read was that the effects might be strongest in the lowest few meters of the atmosphere, where we happen to take the temperature measurements at the land - based stations.

If some really think methods can fabricate a better answer than the actual measurements, why don't we just put a few hundred stations in a sq mile or two, and just use that to calculate a global average, we have a model of how that temps relates to temps thousands of km's away, so what's not to like?

While there are few ground - based weather stations in the North Pacific to tally how much rain fell over the ocean, satellites such as those participating in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can estimate precipitation rates from above.