Sentences with phrase «from weather station data»

The Berkeley Earth group has developed a new mathematical framework for producing maps and large - scale averages of temperature changes from weather station data for the purposes of climate analysis.
Climate data were derived from weather station data provided by National Climate Monitoring of Deutscher Wetterdienst and were corrected for altitude.
Obtaining the globally averaged temperature from weather station data has a well - known problem: there are some gaps in the data, especially in the polar regions and in parts of Africa.

Not exact matches

When the official weather station moved from downtown Buffalo to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in 1943, it limited the amount of climate data from inside city limits over the last 50 years.
Observation - based data sets, which focus mainly on local and regional climate, are obtained by taking raw climate measurements from weather stations and applying it to a grid defined over the globe.
They compiled 5 years of wind data from 11 offshore weather - monitoring stations buoyed along 2500 kilometers of the East Coast.
It turned out that the latter assertion was based on temperature readings from just three American weather stations and precipitation data from one.
Cowtan's version differs because it compensates for missing data from areas with few weather stations, like the Arctic.
Because there were much fewer weather stations collecting temperature data in Finland for the earlier portion of the time series, the researchers also used temperature data from neighboring Sweden, Norway and Russia.
«You could imagine using data from Twitter, Internet use, satellite and weather stations — all this data — to measure population vulnerability, or to make better policy,» he said.
But CRU has struggled to respond to numerous requests filed under Britain's Freedom of Information Act that seek raw temperature data from weather stations, including observations obtained from other countries under promise of confidentiality.
The research, led by Professor Edward Hanna, of the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, used data from 76 UK Met Office weather stations, 30 weather stations in the Faroe Islands and 148 stations in Iceland.
After Levy and colleagues noted visible effects of ground ice retreat in Garwood Valley, they began to monitor the valley, combining time - lapse photography and weather - station data at 15 - minute intervals to create a detailed view of the conditions under which the ice, a relict from the last ice age, is being lost.
David W. J. Thompson of Colorado State University and Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration examined 30 years of climate data collected from surface stations and from weather balloons launched from sites around Antarctica.
EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.
Data from Summit also impact real - time weather prediction, particularly in the winter due to the station's proximity to the North Atlantic storm track.
Lu and Sanche analysed ozone and cosmic ray data taken from ground stations, weather balloons and satellites.
They collected rainfall data from a weather station located close to the study area so that the rainfall totals on the signs were as representative as possible of actual conditions.
Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.
Julian Tang, a clinical virologist at the United Kingdom's University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, notes that the humidity and temperature data used in the study come from outdoor weather monitoring stations, whereas it's believed most flu transmission occurs indoors.
The second data set comes from satellite imagery, geographic information systems and weather stations.
For their paper, published in Applied Geography, researchers at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Battelle Memorial Institute studied air temperature data from weather stations, land surface temperatures measured by satellites and socioeconomic data.
In summer, however, the analysis of observational data coming from weather stations and satellites reveals a clear decrease in the average storm activity.
By correlating the relevant environmental variables through analysis of data from sources such as space, weather stations, etc., the researchers were able to scientifically validate a potential cause for chick weight variation over time.
Data comes from various sources, including observations, weather stations at airports, Doppler radar and satellite imagery, National Weather Service bulletins, and even tidal gages.
The scientists examined four different versions of the model outputs, each one translated for the region with data from weather stations in the Northwest through a process called «downscaling.»
They are backed up by independent data from automatic weather stations, as shown in our paper as well as in updated work by Bromwich, Monaghan and others (see their AGU abstract, here), whose earlier work in JGR was taken as contradicting ours.
I downloaded data from NCDC's database of more than 5,000 weather stations across the United States.
A Climate Central analysis of 65 years of winter precipitation data from more than 2,000 weather stations in 42 states, found a decrease in the percent of precipitation falling as snow in winter months for every region of the country.
The results are based on a statistical blending of satellite data and temperature data from weather stations.
Prof Dong Guangrong, speaking for the academy — after a study analysing data from 680 weather stations scattered across the country — said that the rising temperatures would thaw out the tundra of the plateau, turning it into desert.
The team charted trends in rainfall from 1956 to 2005 in eastern China, which has 162 weather stations that provided complete data collected over the entire 50 years.
They used a combination of field observations and data from local weather stations to test a model of glacier change over the past 50 years.
- NOTE not all live weather reports for Bangor, Northern Ireland update at the same frequency which is why some locations can show data from stations that are more remote if the report is more recent than known closer ones.
* NOTE: not all live weather reports for Port Hardy, British Columbia update at the same frequency which is why some locations can show data from stations that are more remote if the report is more recent than known closer ones.
The majority of the data needed for surf forecasting comes from a variety of meteorological weather stations, satellites and historical data, enabling a forecast or advanced picture of what can be expected to be produced.
In conjunction with the exhibition Featured Artist Project: SP Weather Reports (2008 - 2013) on view from January 17 — March 29, we are pleased to announce the publication of Six Years of Weather, which compiles tables of all weather data recorded at the SPWS station base in Long Island City since the project began.
Projects in the programme include Penthouse 4C, a half - size replica of the Barbican Estate's largest apartment reconstructed in the central foyer, confusing notions of private and public space whilst providing an iconic stage for workshops and performances; Unmoored, a weather station installed on the roof beaming data to screens throughout the centre to transform the Barbican into an airship in motion; meanwhile the Barbican's lower level cloakroom will become the Ministry of Measurement whose bureaucratic functionaries will send members of the public scurrying off with instructions to recover data from around the centre and bring it back to be filed and processed.
The installation appears as a live broadcast: the video image is composed by a computer program, which receives data from the weather station constantly altering the image.
The two longest ones are of temperature near the Earth's surface: a vast network of weather stations over land areas, and ship data from the oceans.
I have thought for a while that the «problem» would go away if the the regional and global averages were area - weighted averages of the data from the various weather stations.
The authors compared recently constructed temperature data sets from Antarctica, based on data from ice cores and ground weather stations, to 20th century simulations from computer models used by scientists to simulate global climate.
(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.
There seem to me to be quite a few advantages that the Netatmo weather station has over using a weather app or a TV broadcast, of which the most basic is that you get hyperlocal data - right from your yard and your home.
For instance, if the nearest weather station is quite a bit distant from you, or is in a completely different type of location than your home (on the other side of a ridge, or in a valley or on a hill), the data from the Netatmo device will reflect what's happening right outside your home.
Although there are no permanent weather stations in the Arctic, there is intermittent data from buoys and and from weather model reanalyses with which they could test their method.
It is not climate scientist's responsibility to calibrate, check or collect data from these weather stations.
Prof Dong Guangrong, speaking for the academy — after a study analysing data from 680 weather stations scattered across the country — said that the rising temperatures would thaw out the tundra of the plateau, turning it into desert.
My own analysis for my neck - of - the - woods (slightly less definite due to the data from the local weather station having stalled in May 2013 — probably due to spending cuts)-- February saw record rainfall, 38 % above the previous 55 - year February maximum and 3.35 sd above the February mean.
Some programs were huge, mobilizing cooperation among a dozen or more nations to provide data from weather stations, research ships, and (by far the most expensive) satellites to monitor temperatures, clouds, ocean currents, ice sheets and more.
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