Systematic
measurement biases introduced a spurious cooling trend since 2003.
Not exact matches
The progressive increase in the ratio of intrinsically warmer (ships) to intrinsically cooler (buoys)
measurements introduces a cooling
bias in the trend for the combined data.
The problem with the historical data (besides accuracy and repeatability and quality control questions,...) is that many of the series or single
measurements were done at such places like Diekirch, which
introduces a strong positive
bias.
So you might ask if past
measurement techniques
introduced a
bias that would show in the long - term trend.
By the way, think about what these adjustments mean — adjusting recent temperatures down means that our growing urban society and hot cities are somehow
introducing a recent cooling
bias in
measurement.
The range of the gradient is 12 kilometers (grid 12 km by 12 km) and its purpose is to show whether or not accurate and meaningful C12 / C14
measurements can be made anywhere near a powerplant (for instance) without
introducing the same
bias as, say, an «urban heat island».
What is the
bias in degrees Celsius
introduced as a result of aggregating temperature data from different
measurement heights, aerodynamic roughnesses, and thermodynamic stability?
In general,
measurement error tends to decrease the ability to detect an effect that is in fact present and therefore
introduces a conservative
bias.39