Sentences with phrase «measurement practices»

As long as you are health conscious and managing any conditions well, you'll get the best possible rates regardless of what outdated measurement practices say.

A favorite target are the adjustments that occur as these observational records are gradually being vetted and improved by adding new data and eliminating artifacts that arise e.g. from changing measurement practices or the urban heat island effect.

There are very substantial known changes in SST measurement practices during WWII, which are hard to correct for completely.

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Even worse, the entire measurement practice interferes with the early identification of LD.

Second, measurement practices today work against identifying LD children before 2nd grade.

Leslie Keng is dedicated to helping state and national clients develop high quality and defensible assessment and accountability systems through empirical and evidence based approaches, sound measurement practices, and assessment literacy.

Based on current status, however, much of the data needed for the new system (particularly the new Smarter Balanced test scores) have not been documented as valid reliable or fair as required by both legislative language and good educational measurement practice.

They also make adjustments for buoys in recent years and changes in ship measurement practices, but end up with a somewhat different estimate than ERSST.

So, the next step will be to revisit the SST bias corrections and refine them, making use of the new information uncovered concerning national measurement practices and new analysis techniques that allow for more accurate corrections in areas and at times where there are few data.

In both these early studies, about 0.5 °C was subtracted from MAT for 1942 - 5, a period of non-standard measurement practices owing to war.

This ensemble approach allows characterisation of spatially and temporally correlated uncertainty structure in the gridded data, for example arising from uncertainties in methods used to account for changes in SST measurement practices, homogenisation of land station records and the potential impacts of urbanisation.

These series have to be «homogeneous», meaning that they need to reflect the local climate variable consistently through its span, not being affected by changes in the local environment, instrumentation, and measurement practices.

Systematic instrumental errors, such as changes in measurement practices or urbanisation, could be more important, especially earlier in the record (Chapter 3), although these errors are calculated to be relatively small at large spatial scales.

Because the locations and measurement practices of weather stations change over time, there are uncertainties in the interpretation of specific year - to - year global mean temperature differences.

«No - one disputes that there are uncertainties in estimating the global mean temperature anomaly — issues of spatial coverage, measurement practice changes over time, movement of stations etc. and we estimate that any one year's value comes with an uncertainty of about plus or minus 0.05 degrees Celsius, or 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit,» Schmidt said in an email.