To answer this question I looked at more than just the traditional Hadley, NASA and NOAA datasets, but also the measurements of the lower troposphere processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) as well as the 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data and
meteorological weather modeling.
These include the primary surface temperature thermometer records (NASA GISS, NOAA, and HadCRUT); satellite measurements of the lower troposphere temperature processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH); and 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data, buoy and ship measurements, and
meteorological weather modeling.
Not exact matches
To find out more about how meteorologists use forecasting
models to get ahead of Mother Nature as well as the limitations of this technology, Scientific American spoke with Thomas Else, chief meteorologist and director of
meteorological services and computer programming for Hackettstown, N.J. - based
weather forecasting consulting firm
Weather Works LLC.
In order to demonstrate these links, PhD student Sil Lanckriet (Department of Geography, Ghent University) analyzed
weather data since the 1950s, as delivered from a
meteorological computer
model.
Whether there is a divide between
weather and climate scientists out in the field, the
meteorological society's official 2007 statement on climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and results from
modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.»
ERA - Interim combines information from
meteorological observations with background information from a forecast
model, using the data assimilation approach developed for numerical
weather prediction.
ECMWF's approach to reanalysis combines measurements of temperature and other
meteorological variables with a global
weather model to provide a complete picture of the regional patterns of climate.