The annual balance in meters of water equivalent determined from field measurements networks of varying
number of measurement sites on Columbia Glacier.
Not exact matches
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There are now improved and expanded data since the TAR, including, for example,
measurements at a larger
number of sites, improved analysis
of borehole temperature data and more extensive analyses
of glaciers, corals and sediments.
In our discussions we agreed that
measurements at a
number of sites would be desirable.
The most important ramification is that if the distribution and depth
of the snowpack is known on June 1, than summer water resources can be estimated for a wide range
of basins from a limited
number of primary ablation
measurement sites.
-- I agree that the significance
of wind speed can depend on local conditions, but it's a big jump from compiling available
measurements to traveling around the world to measure Reynold's
numbers at 290
sites.
There are a
number of reasons to prefer satellite data over surface data for temperature
measurement — satellites have better coverage and are not subject to
site location biases.
These surface networks have had so many changes over time that the
number of stations that have been moved, had their time
of observation changed, had equipment changes, maintenance issues, or have been encroached upon by micro
site biases and / or UHI using the raw data for all stations on a national scale or even a global scale gives you a result that is no longer representative
of the actual
measurements, there is simply too much polluted data.
Since then, a growing
number of surface temperature
measurement stations worldwide, coupled with improved methods for correcting for biases induced through urban heat island effects and other station
siting and operational issues, have allowed for the development
of accurate global temperature estimates.
OTOH, Tom Karl's project seeks to bootstrap information about past and future
measurements at a large
number of sites by setting up a small, optimal network which can be used as a yardstick to check the larger USHCN and the US CO-OP networks.
These
numbers, and in fact all
numbers you will ever see in the press, are not the raw instrument
measurements — they include a
number of manual adjustments made by climate scientists to correct for both time
of observation as well as changing quality
of the
measurement site itself.
For this cherry - picked good example
of a historical temperature
measurement point, here are the adjustments that are made to this
site's
measurements before it is crunched up into the official historic global warming
numbers: