A group called the International Surface Temperature Initiative is dedicated to making global
land temperature data available in a transparent manner.
Not exact matches
To estimate the
temperature at various depths (from 3,500 m to 9,500 m depth) the researchers have used the heat flow and
temperatures at 1,000 m and 2,000 m provided in the Atlas of Geothermal Resources in Europe, as well as thermal
data of the
land surface
available from NASA.
We are already taking action by making
data and codes
available, and we have led an international proposal for a new global daily
land surface
temperature dataset, which has the backing of the World Meteorological Organization and has open access as its key element.
While
land surface observations go back hundreds of years in a few places,
data of sufficient coverage for estimating global
temperature have been
available only since the end of the 19th century.
There are no
temperature data available in most of the
land area on Earth, and so those in charge of the instrumental record just in - fill their guesses (based on computer models) of what they think the
temperatures might be.
There is a major question in my mind of the wisdom of using a «global» surface
temperature to begin with and a «global» surface
temperature based on a SST which is more related to Tmin averaged with a
land based «Surface»
temperature that is based on T Ave.. So instead of blindly quoting nonsense, I actually try to verify using all the
data that is
available.
This is
data linking
temperature with pollen count, how do we know that the increase of
temperature is not causing the increase in pollen count (increased
land available for growth, longer growing seasons, etc)?
Again you may go back to scientific papers of past decades when the issue of
land based observations was studied by the scientists as there was not yet much knowledge on the suitability of the
available data for calculating averages of the
temperature change.
No such complete meta -
data are
available, so in this analysis the same value for urbanisation uncertainty is used as in the previous analysis [Folland et al., GRL 2001]; that is, a 1 sigma value of 0.0055 deg C / decade, starting in 1900... The same value is used over the whole
land surface, and it is one - sided: recent
temperatures may be too high due to urbanisation, but they will not be too low.
Earth's global average surface
temperature has risen as shown in this plot of combined
land and ocean measurements from 1850 to 2012, derived from three independent analyses of the
available data sets.
The university said on Saturday that 95 % of the CRU climate
data set concerning
land surface
temperatures has been made
available to the public for «several years» and that all
data will be... Read more