We know that
the number of measurement stations has been slashed by more than two - thirds around the 1990s, about the same time when temperature showed a strong rise.
This is further complicated by the drop out of a large
number of measurement stations.
Not exact matches
The expedition was mandated to gather a
number of measurements necessary for the design and conception phase
of the
station.
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Let's suppose this position is correct, but when creating the global average I cut the percentage
of rural
stations in the
measurement network from 75 % to 25 % (sorry don't know the real
numbers).
Temperatures aloft can be measured in a
number of ways, two
of which are useful for climate monitoring: by radiosondes (balloon - borne instrument packages, including thermometers, released daily or twice daily at a network
of observing
stations throughout the world), and by satellite
measurements of microwave radiation emitted by oxygen gas in the lower to mid-troposphere, taken with an instrument known as the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU).5 The balloon
measurements are taken at the same Greenwich mean times each day, whereas the times
of day
of the satellite
measurements for a given location drift slowly with changes in the satellite orbits.
Mears and others said that the satellite
measurements should not be taken seriously because they only infer the temperature from
measurements of radio emissions by Oxygen molecules - AND - that these final
numbers never match actual temperature
measurements made over land and water (ground
stations as well as radiosonde).
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.