Not exact matches
Extending the
instrumental record of climate beyond the late 19th Century when many of the national
weather centers were first started is an important, difficult and undervalued task.
Extending the
instrumental record of climate beyond the late 19th Century when many of the national
weather centers were first started is an important, difficult and undervalued task.
Both the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) satellite (analyzed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville by John Christy and Roy Spencer) and
weather balloon data (trends reported by a number of researchers, notably Jim Angell at NOAA) have failed to show significant warming since the satellite
record began in late 1978, even though the surface
record has been rising at its fastest pace (~ 0.15 C / decade) since
instrumental records began.
We have only 150 years of
instrumental records of
weather (and some of those
records are not very good).
Faron's work now centres on improving our understanding of BC's climate over the period since
instrumental weather observations began to be
recorded in the late 1800s.
The
instrumental record is so replete with limitations, errors, and manipulations that it is not even a crude estimate of the pattern of
weather and its changes over time.