What is
the measurement uncertainty of the temperature data that underlies the heat content calculation?
So, now instead of carbon listed as being 12.0107 atomic mass units with
a measurement uncertainty of about 0.0008, it has an official atomic weight of [12.0096; 12.0116], where the brackets and semicolon indicate an interval of atomic weights.
Rose, D., S.S. Gunthe, E. Mikhailov, G.P. Frank, U. Dusek, M.O. Andreae and U. Pöschl, Calibration and
measurement uncertainties of a continuous - flow cloud condensation nuclei counter (DMTCCNC): CCN activation of ammonium sulfate and sodium chloride aerosol particles in theory and experiment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 1153 - 1179, 2008.
Not exact matches
«Given the
uncertainty surrounding the
measurement of economic slack, the true amount may be larger than estimated, which could slow down the emergence
of price pressures,» Draghi told a regular committee hearing.
The degree
of auditor judgment related to areas in the financial statements that involved the application
of significant judgment or estimation by management, including estimates with significant
measurement uncertainty;
Margin
of error is a
measurement of uncertainty that results from sampling.
The precision
of previous
measurements based on hydrogen atoms was limited by
uncertainties related to the internal structure
of the proton inside its nucleus.
Apart from the
uncertainty of relying largely on self - reported
measurements, she points out, the authors double - dip their data by testing height and weight separately and then again as body mass index, or BMI, which combines height and weight.
Further complicating the picture is the possibility that the five youngish stars could be red giants after all, thanks to
uncertainties in the
measurements of their sizes, says astronomer Evan Kirby
of Caltech.
Such
measurements have a lot
of uncertainty, however, as they depend on the inclination
of the planet's orbit, which isn't well known.
Although the calculated mass for that pulsar, called J1614 - 2230, is lower than that
of the black widow pulsar, the
uncertainty in the
measurement is smaller: + / - 0.04 solar masses vs 0.12 solar masses for the black widow pulsar.
Uncertainties in the
measurement of mass make it hard to classify borderline objects this way.
The adjacent numbers are the dates with the
uncertainties of the
measurements.
«Which means that if you want to protect your biological specimen on a trip to Mars to a set conservative limit, you will probably be carrying six times too much shielding, just because the
uncertainty is a factor
of six — a 600 percent
uncertainty in the
measurement.»
The measured
uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target
of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance
measurements, Howe explained.
The new
measurement is 1.380 651 56 (98) × 10 − 23 J K − 1, where the (98) shows the
uncertainty in the last two digits, which amounts to an
uncertainty of 0.7 parts per million — almost half the previous lowest
uncertainty.
However, because each
of these
measurements must be calibrated to account for natural variation in the environment over time, individual dates have large amounts
of error and
uncertainty, making them difficult to aggregate or interpret in groups.
This adds
uncertainty to temperature
measurements on top
of the normal practical difficulties.»
Like earlier efforts, the scheme, designed by Paul Townsend
of the British Telephone Laboratories in Ipswich, U.K., relies on Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle — the German physicist's famous insistence that any
measurement of a system changes its state.
The
uncertainty in the latest
measurement is 150 parts per million, or 0.015 % — only slightly larger than that
of the conventional method
of determining G, which is to quantify the mutual pull
of two macroscopic masses.
A separate experiment measuring the atoms in a silicon sphere has calculated Planck's constant down to an
uncertainty of 20 parts per billion, while the best watt
measurement has achieved an
uncertainty of just 19 parts per billion.
As a result, they were able to obtain an angle - amplitude
measurement of unprecedented precision, unbothered by quantum
uncertainty.
«The physical reason behind this
uncertainty is that
measurement, by its very nature, requires using some sort
of energy — for example, shining a light on the object to be measured.
Already the
uncertainties in
measurements using the best
of these clocks are smaller than those in
measurements using the very best cesium standards.
Measurements by Leo Hollberg's group at NIST, as well as by other groups elsewhere, suggest that the intrinsic limit of the optical comb is still a couple of orders of magnitude better than the uncertainty in current optical frequency m
Measurements by Leo Hollberg's group at NIST, as well as by other groups elsewhere, suggest that the intrinsic limit
of the optical comb is still a couple
of orders
of magnitude better than the
uncertainty in current optical frequency
measurementsmeasurements.
The simplicity
of optical combs has not only increased how often scientists around the world make these extremely precise frequency
measurements but also greatly decreased the
uncertainty in those
measurements.
This allows high - precision
measurements in a short time and considerably facilitates the future reduction
of the total
measurement uncertainty down to a few parts in 1018.
The team's new
measurement is 13 times more precise than previous efforts, with an
uncertainty of just 0.03 parts per billion, the researchers report online today in Nature.
She says
uncertainty in these new
measurements means the orbits
of these dwarf galaxies may not be as nicely aligned as they seem.
In all, Endres and Wingreen's strategy halves the
uncertainty in the concentration
measurements and therefore allows cells to make
measurements of a given certainty more quickly.
«The tide gauge
measurements are essential for determining the
uncertainty in the GMSL (global mean sea level) acceleration estimate,» said co-author Gary Mitchum, USF College
of Marine Science.
«The total
measurement uncertainty lies at only 4 × 10 - 19, allowing a height difference
of 4 mm between clocks to be resolved within 100 seconds
of measurement time only.»
The interval doesn't reflect an
uncertainty in
measurement precision but rather a real variation
of atomic weight from substance to substance.
Among the results he has achieved are demonstrations
of the quantum teleportation between material objects, a quantum memory for light, an optical detection
of radio waves using a nanomechanical oscillator, a quantum optical interface with a one dimensional atomic crystal, and
measurement of motion not restricted by the Heisenberg
uncertainty.
«If you really believe our number — and we have shed blood, sweat and tears to get our
measurement right and to accurately understand the
uncertainties — then it leads to the conclusion that there is a problem with predictions based on
measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the leftover glow from the Big Bang,» said Alex Filippenko, a UC Berkeley professor
of astronomy and co-author
of a paper announcing the discovery.
But the new direct
measurements yield a rate
of 73.24 (± 1.74) km / sec / Mpc, an
uncertainty of only 2.4 percent, and clearly incompatible with the Planck predictions, Filippenko said.
The telescope data give us the redshift due to the Hubble expansion that when coupled with the direct distance
measurement from the gravitational wave data gives us a Hubble Constant value
of 70 km / sec / Mpc (with an
uncertainty of +12 and -8 km / sec / Mpc).
As our
measurements become more and more precise in this field, we are finding that most
of our
uncertainty comes from our lack
of understanding
of the stars that the planets orbit.
The constraining parameters are shown as pairs
of lines, where separations
of the lines indicates the
measurement uncertainties.
Spectroscopy
of the star coupled with asteroseismic modeling
of the multiple pulsation modes yield precise
measurements of stellar properties, notably Teff = 5793 + / - 74 K, M = 1.079 + / - 0.051 Msun, R = 1.243 + / - 0.019 Rsun, and density 0.7903 + / - 0.0054 (cgs), all measured with fractional
uncertainties of only a few percent.
The
uncertainty of 120 km on our
measurement of the planet's size currently renders it one
of the most precisely measured planetary radii outside
of the Solar System.
These involved calculating weights for the velocity time series from the
measurement uncertainties and adjusting them in order to minimize the noise level
of the combined data.
I can certainly tell you that it would not be acceptable to report such a narrow combined
uncertainty in a physics
measurement (where
uncertainties are much more under control) if the result
of two
measurements showed such discrepancies.
The new
measurement reduces the rate
of expansion to an
uncertainty of only 2.4 percent.
In metrology, measuring sticks must be traceably calibrated against standard tools
of measurement, which must further be traced to primary standards based on physical constants, such as units
of wavelength
of light that have low measures
of uncertainty.
I can determine the standard
uncertainty for all the measured variables from statistics It is falsifiable — i can move a body at a certain velocity for a certain time and measure the traveled distance If the traveled distance does not fit with calculated distance within the uncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement the model migh
uncertainty for all the measured variables from statistics It is falsifiable — i can move a body at a certain velocity for a certain time and measure the traveled distance If the traveled distance does not fit with calculated distance within the
uncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement the model migh
uncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression
of Uncertainty in Measurement the model migh
Uncertainty in
Measurement the model might be wrong.
And since we don't have good ocean heat content data, nor any satellite observations, or any
measurements of stratospheric temperatures to help distinguish potential errors in the forcing from internal variability, it is inevitable that there will be more
uncertainty in the attribution for that period than for more recently.
Judith Curry wrote: «He voices concerns about the following threats to scientific integrity (see especially the last page): appealing to emotions; making personal (ad hominem) attacks; deliberately mischaracterizing an inconvenient argument; inappropriate generalization; misuse
of facts and
uncertainties; false appeal to authority; hidden value judgments; selectively leaving out inconvenient
measurement results.»
They also completely miss out any
of the interesting
uncertainty discussed here about the
measurements and multi-decadal oscillations in the Ocean.
- > [# 3] Comparing two
measurements with a possible
uncertainty of + / - 6Sv each should result in a total
uncertainty of + / -12 Sv (ossibly more considering less sophisticated equipment in 1957).