Mishchenko, M.I., I.V. Geogdzhayev, L. Liu, J.A. Ogren, A.A. Lacis, W.B. Rossow, J.W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, 2003: Aerosol retrievals from AVHRR radiances: Effects of particle nonsphericity and absorption and an updated long - term
global climatology of aerosol properties.
All AOGCMs presumably are tuned so that
the global climatology of OLR and OSR agree with observations.
Not exact matches
Global change research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial proc
Global change research encompasses a wide variety
of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology,
global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial proc
global carbon cycles,
climatology, and terrestrial processes.
Connie Woodhouse, a professor at the University
of Arizona specializing in the
climatology of western North America, said the records indicate that a similar event could happen in the future, with the added exacerbation
of human - induced
global warming.
Fake paper fools
global warming naysayers The man - made -
global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal
of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University
of Arizona's Department
of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.
Data from the International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project, the
Global Resource Information Database
of the United Nations, and the National Weather Service reveal another, more fundamental impediment: November skies suddenly turn cloudy.
A lot
of people even at professorial level still seem to confuse this old - time
climatology with something rather different:
global climate change research looking for an order
of magnitude more accuracy.
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works
of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in
global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.
Nevertheless, in almost all texts
of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation.
That's certainly what one expects in he majority
of local
climatologies in a warming world, although
of course the local response to
global warming will be larger in some areas than other and etc...
Nevertheless, in almost all texts
of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation.
Regarding the texts I mentioned, the concepts are discussed on page 332
of Hartmann's «
Global Physical
Climatology», and page 215 (bottom)
of Pierrehumbert's «Principles
of Planetary Climate».
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works
of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in
global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.
A lot
of people even at professorial level still seem to confuse this old - time
climatology with something rather different:
global climate change research looking for an order
of magnitude more accuracy.
«The
global mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estim
global mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view
of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the
Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estim
Global Precipitation
Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent
of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by
global precipitation estim
global precipitation estimates).
I have yet to find where any
of our perfect extremist Republicans and Christians bothered to make any predictions concerning Dolly to prove any expertise in natural cycles, counting with fingers and toes, passing urine tests, use
of a calendar, meteorology,
climatology, ecology, or a million other loose ends within
global warming.
As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue
of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to
climatology.
The fact is that only.1 %
of published papers in peer reviewed journals
of Climatology in any way question the conclusion that Humans are causing
global warming and that conditions will continue to deteriorate.
We have compiled a list
of over 100 respected scientists in
climatology and related fields who do NOT believe that the facts are clear and that the science concerning
global warming is settled.
I agree with Richard Lindzen
of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology that
climatology is a young field that developed for decades out
of the limelight, and that has suddenly been thrust into the heart
of a multi-trillion-dollar fight over national and
global energy policy.
Using monthly - averaged
global satellite records from the International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability
of long - term cloud measurements.
Since you are on the topic
of expanding the historical data record, I wonder if you could offer some background on the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (GHCN) and the strange apparent pattern
of station distribution in time.
Crichton has done a great service to the science
of Climatology by putting the topic
of global warming on the front burner.
From what I see from the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (GHCN)
of land temperatures and the Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (COADS)
of SST data, temperatures there were higher around the 1930's than now, and there is not much long term warming trend, except for the past few years.
From Hartmann, «
Global Physical
Climatology», 1994, p. 28, stratospheric emission leaving the stratosphere up and down: 11 % (5 % down, 6 % up)
of 342 W / m2, or 37.62 W / m2 (ignoring sig.figs).
The distinction between the top
of atmosphere energy budget and the surface or troposphere energy budget is crucial, and are explicitly considered separate in many texts on
global climate, such as in Dennis Hartmann's «Global Physical Climatology» or in Ray Pierrehumbert's upcoming
global climate, such as in Dennis Hartmann's «
Global Physical Climatology» or in Ray Pierrehumbert's upcoming
Global Physical
Climatology» or in Ray Pierrehumbert's upcoming text.
But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on
global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or
climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product
of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.
«Climate dice,» describing the chance
of unusually warm or cool seasons relative to
climatology, have become progressively «loaded» in the past 30 years, coincident with rapid
global warming.
It is irrelevant how well a president knows
climatology and the tenets
of so - called
global warming.
And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average
global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological
climatology and spent three decades as a research professor
of environmental sciences at the University
of Virginia.
The Berkeley Earth group use the
Global Historical
Climatology Network dataset, but they have combined it with several other datasets to create a much larger dataset than any
of the others.
The Berkeley Earth dataset contains records for nearly 40,000 stations, i.e., more than 5 times the number
of stations in the
Global Historical
Climatology Network.
So, when the Berkeley Earth group are using their dataset for studing long - term trends, they are predominantly relying on the
Global Historical
Climatology Network component
of their dataset.
WMO - «Because the data with respect to in - situ surface air temperature across Africa is sparse, a oneyear regional assessment for Africa could not be based on any
of the three standard
global surface air temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination of the Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was used to esti
global surface air temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination
of the
Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was used to esti
Global Historical
Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was used to estimate s
For the rest
of the world, the Historical
Climatology Network datasets didn't actually have enough rural stations with sufficiently long records to estimate
global temperature trends.
The effect
of large - scale model time step and multiscale coupling frequency on cloud
climatology, vertical structure, and rainfall extremes in a superparameterized
global climate model.
Unfortunately, the rest
of the
Global Historical
Climatology Network is nowhere near as useful.
The main dataset is known as the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (GHCN), but a large component
of this dataset is also available as a separate dataset called the U.S. Historical
Climatology Network (USHCN).
This research, published online in the Royal Meteorological Society's International Journal
of Climatology, raises new concerns about the reliability
of models used to forecast
global warming.
Nearly all
of it is and has been for several years freely available from the
Global Historical
Climatology Network maintained by the National Climate Data Center (US Department
of Commerce).
«Mr. Gore's Movie has Claims no Informed Expert Endorses» By Bob Unruh More than 31,000 scientists across the US, «including more than 9,000 PhD.s in fields such as atmospheric science,
climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens
of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting «
global warming,» the assumption that the human production
of greenhouse -LSB-...]
Input data for the analysis, collected by many national meteorological services around the world, is the unadjusted data
of the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (Peterson and Vose, 1997 and 1998) except that the USHCN station records included were replaced by a later corrected version.
The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in
climatology from the University
of London and taught at the University
of Winnipeg for 28 years says that the widely propagated «fact» that humans are contributing to
global warming is the «greatest deception in the history
of science.»
Input data for the analysis, collected by many national meteorological services around the world, is the unadjusted data
of the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (Peterson and Vose, 1997 and 1998) except that the USHCN station records up to 1999 were replaced by a version
of USHCN data with further corrections after an adjustment computed by comparing the common 1990 - 1999 period
of the two data sets.
Stations ranked as «poor» in a survey by Anthony Watts and his team
of the most important temperature recording stations in the U.S., (known as the USHCN — the US Historical
Climatology Network), showed the same pattern
of global warming as stations ranked «OK.»
More than 31,000 scientists across the US, «including more than 9,000 PhD.s in fields such as atmospheric science,
climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens
of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting «
global warming,» the assumption that the human production
of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.
Applying the Discombobulating Principle to
Global Warming: Nothing explains the level
of certainty about AGW theory in the field
of climatology that ultimately, is not cosmological.
The source
of the monthly mean station temperatures for the GISS analysis is the
Global Historical
Climatology Network (GHCN)
of Peterson and Vose [1997] and updates, available electronically, from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
To believe that Mann is right, you have to believe that the developer
of the first satellite
global temperature record, and the winner
of the International Meetings on Statistical
Climatology achievement award, and the co-editor
of The Encyclopedia
of Atmospheric Sciences, and the co-editor
of Forecast Verification: A Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science, and the co-founder
of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, and a member
of the UN Secretary - General's High Level Group on Sustainable Energy, and the Professor
of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute
of Berlin Free University, and the Professor
of Climate and Culture at King's College, London, and the Professor
of the Economics
of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the former president
of the Royal Statistical Society, and the former director
of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, and the director
of the Center for Climatic Research at the University
of Delaware, and three professors at the Department
of Geology and Geophysics at the University
of Utah, and the scientist at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term «
global warming», and dozens more are all wrong, every single one
of them.
In an unpublished paper, Watts et al. raise new questions about the adjustments applied to the U.S. Historical
Climatology Network (USHCN) station data (which also form part
of the GHCN
global dataset).