«Any experiment suffers
from measurement noise which degrades results.
Not exact matches
Some Town Board members found the early language confusing, arguing that the way it was phrased, if someone on Nassau Point in Cutchogue complained about
noise coming
from Greenport the
measurement would be taken on the beach in Cutchogue.
Now, the «smart» bandage developed by the team provides direct, noninvasive
measurement of tissue oxygenation by combining three simple, compact and inexpensive components: a bright sensor molecule with a long phosphorescence lifetime and appropriate dynamic range; a bandage material compatible with the sensor molecule that conforms to the skin's surface to form an airtight seal; and an imaging device capable of capturing the oxygen - dependent signals
from the bandage with high signal - to -
noise ratio.
Any number of background
noises can scuttle the delicate
measurement — LIGO can also hear ocean waves pounding distant coastlines, airplanes flying overhead and even the seismic hum
from washing machines.
This
noise results
from the state
measurement itself, since after excitation, each atom is first in a superposition of the two eigenstates and is randomly projected into one of the two states only when the
measurement is performed.
Now a team of physicists including Aranya Bhattacherjee
from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and colleagues are investigating ways of improving the analysis of quantum
noise measurement in the case of spectroscopic investigations; their preliminary findings were released in a study in EPJ D.
«I was coming
from physics, where people devise clever ways to reduce
noise and even more clever ways to utilize
noise to make
measurements.
Taking models of galaxies
from the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and applying a correction for the HUDF point spread function we generate lensed simulations of deep, opti... ▽ More We present a simulation analysis of weak gravitational lensing flexion and shear
measurement using shapelet decomposition, and identify differences between flexion and shear
measurement noise in deep survey data.
These involved calculating weights for the velocity time series
from the
measurement uncertainties and adjusting them in order to minimize the
noise level of the combined data.
If the
noise measurement survey shows that the ambient external
noise levels on the site are below 45 dB and prediction work shows that they will remain below 45 dB in the future, no special measures are likely to be necessary to protect the buildings or playing fields
from external
noise.
Classroom
noise, illness, confusing instructions by an inexperienced teacher, too much help
from the teacher - coach - these and many other elements can confound the
measurement.
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Note that this sampling
noise in the tide gauge data most likely comes
from the water sloshing around in the ocean under the influence of winds etc., which looks like sea - level change if you only have a very limited number of
measurement points, although this process can not actually change the true global - mean sea level.
My understanding of most of the (lets call it) skeptical positions
from people like Roy Spencer is that they essentially claim exactly that: the absence of a large signal compared to
noise (or natural variability) and the entire debate is essentially about the question, whether
noise is a
measurement / statistical problem or the very nature of climate itself?
Of course, on a timescale of one decade the
noise in the temperature signal
from internal variability and
measurement uncertainty is quite large, so this might be hard to determine, though tamino showed that five year means show a monotonic increase over recent decades, and one might not unreasonably expect this to cease for a decade in a grand solar minimum scenario.
You will still SEE an increase in temperatures, but because of the poor localisation the variability is much higher and the effect of small - scale (compared to global) forcings that affect only the region you have
measurements for mean that to get the signal
from the
noise requires more time.
I don't think those
measurements were capable of resolving the background CO2
from the
noise of the in situ where it was done.
If there is any Climate Sensitivity to CO2, to date we have been unable to eek out the signal to CO2 induced warming
from the
noise of natural variation notwithstanding the use of our best and most sophisticated measuring devices and the inherent shortcomings of our
measurement systems and error bounds.
This
noise is either systemic (caused by
measurement errors, etc) or aleatory which is contributions
from everything else we don't yet fully comprehend, or can't because of the shear number of other paths.
Using data without a safety margin, such as mean values for a given turbine model,
measurements from a single turbine, or «best guess» for future turbines gives in principle a probability of 50 per cent that the actual erected turbines will emit more
noise than assumed and that
noise limits will be exceeded.»
What is surprising, and will remain so, is how a series of dubious
measurements, either synthesized
from out of the
noise or barely above the
noise, and in no way historically unsurprising, has made the world stand on its head and contemplate the idiocy demanded by Gore & co..
Tricks were used in the
measurements of low - frequency
noise and infrasound, as denounced by Professor Henrik Moeller, a renowned acoustician
from the University of Aalborg [click here for English translation].
However, these sites do not provide even or comprehensive coverage of the Earth's surface, nor are the sites immune to contamination
from land - use changes — all of which add
noise and uncertainty to the world temperature
measurements.
Another factor is that there aren't huge numbers of observations in that region at that time so I would expect a certain amount of
noise from measurement errors.
The dichotomy «signal» versus «
noise» has been borrowed
from electronics, where indeed is meaningful, but lacks meaning in geophysics (unless
noise is used to describe errors, either in
measurements or in models).
In several records, staff noted that wind turbine
noise exceeded regulations: ««Staff have attended at the complainants homes on multiple occasions...
noise measurements were obtained... subjective observations were made by Provincial Officers... the conclusion of the POs were that the
noise emissions
from the wind turbines were causing an adverse effect contrary to S. 14 (1) of the EPA at the complainants locations...»
Later, when the signal is extracted
from the random
noise,
from the
measurement error and the deliberate
measurement errors, and all of that extracted
from the millennium temperature changes, can the «chicken and egg» relationship be considered.
Background
noise from natural variability makes
measurements less than 12 years unreliable, even with greater accuracy.
The review includes an up to date review of
measurement techniques for assessing
noise from wind turbines in accordance with international standards.
Assuming a CR - cloud connection exists, there are various factors which could potentially account for a lack of detection of this relationship over both long and short timescales studies, including: uncertainties, artefacts and
measurement limitations of the datasets; high
noise levels in the data relative to the (likely low) amplitude of any solar - induced changes; the inability of studies to effectively isolate solar parameters; or the inability to isolate solar - induced changes
from natural climate oscillations and periodicities.
If we detrend HadCRUT, analogous to removing the DC leaving only the power supply ripple, and subtract this (ENSO, PDO, AMO, SSN, Pinatubo, etc) «hum»
from the signal +
noise of UAH temperature measurements, we can also improve our Signal to Noise R
noise of UAH temperature
measurements, we can also improve our Signal to
Noise R
Noise Ratio.
«Whilst the aerodynamic
noise from a rotating turbine blade produces energy in the infrasound range,
measurements of infrasound
noise emissions
from modern upwind turbines indicates that at distances of 200 metres, infrasound is in the order of 25 dB below the recognised perception threshold of 85 dB (G) and other similar recognised perception thresholds (Hayes Mckenzie Partnership Ltd, 2006).
Each of those low temperature data points are the clearest signals (least amount of local
noise) of any physical
measurement that is possible on earth, or
from a satellite in space.