Just surrounding a thermometer with air does not necessarily give you a good
indication of the air temperature, however you choose to define it.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless,
air temperature offers a good
indication of the probability
of finding permafrost in a region, the paper explains.
Average
air temperature is an important
indication of energy changes, but it doesn't tell us everything.
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indications of a connection between intrusion frequency and surface
air temperature at the studied latitudes.
If the HADSST2 or 3 where very accurate and we had an accurate
air temperature record for the oceans, the difference between the two would provide an accurate
indication of the ocean energy imbalance.
They measure the hydrogen and oxygen isotopes to infer
air temperatures at the time the snow fell, and the dust particles give a nice
indication of the dusty periods (much
of the dust was kicked up far away, in the Gobi Desert, rather than from sources closer to Greenland).