Wilson (2007) Matter of divergence: tracking recent warming at
hemispheric scales using tree - ring data.
Not exact matches
A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land
use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as
hemispheric - and continental -
scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets
used.
The
hemispheric scale adds to the potential
uses of what was already the gold standard of paleo - hydroclimate research, said Sloan Coats, a climate dynamicist at the University of Colorado who studies megadroughts
using the atlases.
The earlier data that do exist may be
used to construct a very uncertain estimate of Australian temperatures, and may also be
used for the construction of global and
hemispheric temperature averages on monthly and annual time
scales.