They wanted to better understand how the climate of the Alaska Range has changed over the past several hundred years, because
few weather station records of past climate in mountainous areas go back further than 1950.
Not exact matches
There are
few weather stations, most are on the edge rather than in the interior of the continent and
records go back just a
few decades.
For example, some «skeptics» who don't understand anomalies are worried that the dropout of lots of cold
weather stations in Siberia over the last
few decades has biased the
record warm.
FWIW, it should be quite easy to design and set up a temporary gadget with a small micro-processor, a digital camera (or other optical sensor) with some simple software, and a 4G modem to simply register,
record and transmit the temperature (as indicated by the height of the liquid in an LiG thermometer) from a
few actual
weather stations to a database.