Sentences with phrase «land surface data»

After earning his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 1991, Tom primarily engaged in creating NCDC's global land surface data set used to quantify long - term global climate change.

The compilation of a hemispheric or global land surface data time series from irregularly distributed (in time and space) historical thermometer observations can never be «correct» in an absolute sense.

There are no big surprises in the analyzed results, but I think it was very important that this study was done in light of numerous controversies surrounding existing land surface data sets and their analysis methods.

For example, we have seen quite a number of examples over the past few days of «skeptics» at this very site posting the opinion that land surface data on temperature trends are so unreliable as to be useless.

If we had better sea level rise data for the whole period, we might see that the heat storage curve into the ocean had a shape that better matched the simple function approximation than the land surface data does, or we might have better information on internal climate modes that confused or delayed the temperature response.

This indicates to me that there is something very wrong with the land surface data.

Even the satellite data of the tropospheric temperature has almost the same trend as the land surface data.