Sentences with phrase «land measurements no»

So, unless the satellites always starts to fail just when flying over land, the deviation between land data measured on the ground (mostly from cities and airports) vs. satellite land data is likely to originate mostly from the ground based land measurements.

While the drop is still there in the land measurements, you've all surely noticed that this correction will make the correlation with CO2 better so it will be easy now for the climate models to match the climate record without using the controversial aerosol adjustment (which Hadley used but GISS seemingly didn't).

The SST bias is well known and the data is patchy, the land measurements are possibly biased as well.

My personal feeling is that we can't really even say if the ocean levels are changing at all without knowing how much, and in which direction, the land the measurements are taken from have moved.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

darrylb wonders [reasonably] «Would it not be plausible to have land measurements capable of the same degree of precision as those denizens of the deep are purportedly capable of giving.»

If in fact, our understanding of the fate of the world as some would like everyone to believe rests to a large degree in the data gathered from these temp measuring devices, would it not be plausible to have land measurements capable of the same degree of precision as those denizens of the deep are purportedly capable of giving.

Land measurements are considered much more robust.

One odd feature of the HadSST2 collation was that the temperature impact of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption — which is very clear in the land measurements — didn't really show up in the SST.

The mainstream media by and large got the story right — puzzling anomaly tracked down, corrections in progress after a little scientific detective work, consequences minor — even though a few headline writers got a little carried away in equating a specific dip in 1945 ocean temperatures with the more gentle 1940s - 1970s cooling that is seen in the land measurements.

Well I've got news for you, for years we've been giving them acres, we've given them so much leeway and second chances that land measurements no longer adequately describe the amount of piss they've taken right into our eager, gargling mouths.

He shows, for example, the difference between supposed land temperatures and the actual land measurement coverage.

Those who have proposed $ 100 million to improve the land measurement system should not be surprised either.

Not exact matches

Our measurements of the particle's location and its motion (actually, its momentum) are reciprocally land inversely] related to each other The more we know about one, the less we know about the other,»

Far from scientific measurements, the shake - the - keg technique is a guessing game that often lands bars with empty taps.

The doctor plots your child's height and weight on chart to see which percentile line lands on the measurements.

Simons et al. (p. 1421, published online 19 May) used land - based GPS receivers and tsunami gauge measurements to model the kinematics and extent of the earthquake, comparing it to past earthquakes in Japan and elsewhere.

Data from land - based GPS receivers and tsunami gauge measurements have been used to model the motion and extent of the earthquake.

At the same time as the aircraft were taking measurements, Creamean and her colleagues also took samples of the precipitation on the ground and analyzed them to see whether that dust was in the rain or snow landing in the mountains.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

When Philae lands, its first task will be snapping a 360 - degree panorama of the surface, along with measurements of the gas pressure and dust distribution at the landing site.

And their only means of monitoring the buildup of strain on the fault — GPS measurements of slow ground movement on land — was greatly handicapped by having the stuck patch 150 kilometers offshore.

Pielke, who said one issue ignored in the paper is that land surface temperature measurements over time show bigger warming trends than measurements from higher up in a part of the atmosphere called the lower troposphere, and that still needs more explanation.

According to Archer and Jacobson's bottom - up estimates, which unlike Kleidon's are based on actual measurements of wind speeds, there is 1700 TW of wind power at an altitude of 100 metres over land and sea.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

Dr. Houghton and colleagues conclude that the greater certainty in atmospheric carbon measurements has led to an increased certainty in the calculated rate of carbon uptake by land and oceans.

Liming Zhou of the University at Albany, State University of New York, and colleagues studied land - surface temperature data gathered by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which give measurements with a spatial resolution of roughly 1 square kilometre.

The project has already merged 1.6 billion land surface temperature measurements from 16 sources, most of them publicly available, and is putting them in a simple format to allow easy use by scientists around the world.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

A decade in the planning, NEON hopes to collect long - term, continent - wide measurements of the effects of climate change, land usage, and invasive species.

Ocean floor seismometers will supplement land - based seismic data by providing measurements of the aftershocks on the seafloor.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

It also carries numerous instruments for in situ measurements of the moon and Mars and, before landing, is due to release a Chinese - built Mars orbiter, Yinghuo - 1.

For cattle, 22 years and more than 36,000 fecal measurements suggest that plants on U.S. grazing lands have grown poorer in protein, ecologist Joseph Craine of Jonah Ventures, in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues reported April 10 in Environmental Research Letters.

«Land - based measurements have been the cheap answer,» says Georgia Tech geophysicist Andrew Newman, «but a buoy with a GPS and satellite communications could take the place of a ship and help us get more frequent seafloor measurements more affordably.»

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) mission was launched in July 2014 and has been consistently gathering data on patterns of carbon exchange between the land and the atmosphere around the globe over the course of 16 - day cycles, collecting roughly 2 million measurements each month.

As part of the 2017 study, Neffra Matthews of the BLM's National Operations Center in Denver, helped survey, map and document the trackway using photogrammetry, which helps scientists perform accurate measurements based on land - based or aerial photographs.

The new measurements in this research were made with cores that showed the results of massive amounts of sediments released by subsea landslides during a subduction zone earthquake — a catastrophic event beneath the sea as well as on land.

New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate - driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise.

The researchers used body mass index (BMI) measurements from American Indian children (ages 7 - 18 years) from 117 school districts that encompassed tribal lands in California between 2001 and 2012 and compared children in districts with tribal lands that either did or did not gain or expand a casino.

The close agreement of land - based measurements also help confirm the accuracy of those made from space, a point that will be important for better global understanding of water stored in a high - altitude environment.

Furthermore, when a measurement did not match a precise number of «land rods» — their standard unit of linear measurement, which corresponded to about 2.5 meters — the Aztecs added symbols, such as an arrow, a heart, a hand, or a bone, to indicate remaining length that was less than one rod.

Khan and his colleagues combined GNET data with ice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agency.

Having precise measurements of snow on sea ice is essential for NASA's upcoming Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2).

Two manuscripts in particular have intrigued scholars because they portray land holdings in the Valley of Mexico along with their measurements, using the Aztec numbering system, for purposes of taxation.

Measurements were made that the Piney Reservoir Air Monitoring Station in Garrett County, Maryland, a spot surrounded by forest and farm land, where winds arrive commonly from the west and northwest.

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Measurements from the seabed, the air and from land stations, along with modelling analysis, will provide the link between potential sources of elevated methane concentrations and the reason for variations.