Its one thing to get lower dimensional measures correct (ave temp of the whole field) Its quite another to
get the spatial patterns right and then the spatio temporal patterns right.
MBH
get spatial patterns but the bottom line (the 1000 year series of global temps) is almost the same if you simply average.
Not exact matches
[Response: The AWS records useful because they provide a totally independent estimate of the
spatial covariance
pattern in the temperature field (which we primarily
get from satellites).
«They're accurately capturing the
spatial patterns in hydrologic changes, and they've
got the basic physics right.
Having done that, I think we could perhaps begin to look at the
spatial pattern of those sites, and
get some good insights into why temperature is having such different effects on growth in different places.
To
get a sense of the mix of whaling - era data, tracking and modeling used to estimate past blue whale abundance, read this PloS ONE paper by an overlapping research team from last year: «Estimating Historical Eastern North Pacific Blue Whale Catches Using
Spatial Calling
Patterns.»
Europe presents a
spatial pattern of change, with western continental areas showing last freeze dates
getting earlier faster, some central areas having last freeze and first leaf dates progressing at about the same pace, while in portions of Northern and Eastern Europe first leaf dates are
getting earlier faster than last freeze dates
Tree
spatial patterns are a component in this thing and are one of the reasons that species like lodgepole, ponderosa and whitebark pine
get hit so hard — they are all capable of forming single species stands, making contagious spread easier, especially given that pheromone signalling is involved.