Sentences with phrase «of tobs»

(The other big set of dropped stations is the one with the vast bulk of the TOBS bias.)

The folks at WUWT provide a critique of TOBs adjustments today that, ironically, provides a pretty good validation for those adjustments.

I haven't seen much skeptic discussion of TOBS.

Years ago I pointed out some of this TOBS stuff to skeptics..

After the change the minimum temps may be polluted by double - counts, but the maximum temps should be free of TOBS bias.

The net effect of the TOBs bias is shown in Figure 7.

If so, consider my correcting you as just a small needed adjustment to get things more accurate, my own sort of TOBS adjustment, (Totally Obscure Badinage Spelling)

Before the change the maximum temperature series may be polluted by double - counts, but the minimum temperatures should be free of TOBS bias.

What is the effect of TOBS on the mean temperature of one year.

Zeke's study of TOBS using CRN will be the test for me whether skeptics have the chops to challenge their own beliefs.

Zeke, I'm a bit confused by figure 3, the distribution of Tobs over the USHCN.

I must add that the error associated with the uncertain estimation of the magnitude and time of application of the TOBS correction is also a systematic, non-random error.

The impact of TOBs adjustments is shown in Figure 6, below.

@Mi Cro at 7/23 11:37 am I thought we were in agreement when you brought up the Min and Maxes as part of TOBS.

Zeke, regardless of how you explain it, the thing that outsiders find hard to accept is that the supposed errors don't balance out as would be expected from normal data collection and especially of TOBS.

initial points would be, in terms of tobs and instrument changes, surely in these cases what we are looking at is an absolute change only to the data at point in time change.

I was asking when we stopped using max / min thermometers because the era of electronic measurement should have eliminated the necessity of TOBs adjustment.

You can see the dominance of TOBS in this familiar plot (V1).

Roy Spencer developed his own surface temperature index for the USA 48, by using only the stations which have a homogenous method of taking data over time (four measurements per day) and which are hence completely free of any TOBS biases.

Good to see that peer review works, showing an impact of TOBS changes that ignores most of the 1970 - 90 switchover is disingenuous at best.

That you, Steve McIntyre, would do your usual thorough and object analysis of the TOBS issue, and wondered if TOBS would be an issue for all classes of stations which might not change the qualitative results of bias resulting from poorly placed weather stations.

In other words, the effect of artificially warming up the rural and good stations to match the urban and bad ones is by far greater than the effect of TOBS adjustments.

(Though «Ivan» downplays the significance of TOBS, others disagree, seems a secondary factor.)

I don't see any reduction of the TOBS adjustment for errors already removed in step 1.

Likewise, I think this analysis calls into question the validity of any TOBS adjustments.

Karl has done this in the past as a leader of the TOBS correction that no one (except Watts) disputes.

This one features a very light fragrance compared to most of TOBS other products, which is specially designed to not irritate sensitive skin (despite containing a small amount of citrus essential oils).

If you were running a muni money market fund, and you could get out of any TOB debt at par right now, wouldn't you?

The arbitrage of a TOB is all about the slope between short - term and long - term bonds.

You know that there is a decent chance some of the TOB bonds are about to be downgraded.

In the Fall 2011 paper there were graphs that included TOB figures, but in this new paper there is only one short mention of TOB in the data section and no indication whether it was applied.

«The net effect of the TOB adjustments is to increase the overall trend in maximum temperatures by about 0.012 °C dec - 1 and in minimum temperatures by about 0.018 °C dec - 1 over the period 1985 - 2006 ″.»

Interested in the further discussion of TOB.

Not exact matches

TOBS is a very old and recognized company out of London England.

The ability to build up to a nice lather is one of the most important factors when it comes to soaps and creams and TOBS has this trait in spades.

[6] Original Unity of Man and Woman, Oct. 10, 1979; TOB, 36 - 37.

[10] Original Unity of Man and Woman, Feb. 6, 1980; TOB, 70.

It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it» (TOB 19:4).

«He had no role in the lawful decision to have Rivkin review the matter, and the notion that four months into his tenure he exerted pressure on the Town of Oyster Bay to amend their agreement with Singh — which TOB had already done on their own on three separate occasions before Ed became County Executive — is a total fiction,» Keating said.

After Singh received the copy of the Sinnreich email on April 7, the restaurateur «approached Mangano and, again enlisted Mangano's assistance to secure loans backed by TOB,» the prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said the allegation that Venditto made «material misrepresentations and omissions to the TOB's [Town of Oyster Bay's] securities offerings in order to fraudulently induce investors to invest in TOB's securities offerings» is central to the case, specifically that the town supervisor concealed the town - guaranteed loans for Singh.

Comparison of spatially gridded minimum temperatures for U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) data adjusted for time - of - day (TOB) only, and selected for rural or urban neighborhoods after homogenization to remove biases.

The Pulitzer controversy was the big story this week, inspiring outraged commentary from judges Larson & Corrigan as well as the likes of Ann Patchett, The Morning News ToB crew and Bethanne Patrick, suggesting changes in the Pulitzer judging process and highlighting the lost profits for booksellers who would have seen increased sales for the winner.

She was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Printz honor recipient for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau - Banks, which was also a ToB contestant (and Zombie) in 2009.

TOBs represent 8 % of the total municipal bonds market, or about $ 200 billion.

The Company's short - term debt consists of floating rate certificates issued as part of Tender Option Bond («TOB») trades.

A TOB trade is a repackaging of municipal bonds, effectively providing MBIA with leveraged securitized financing of long - term bonds at short - term tax - exempt rates.

One is of the fastidious C.F.A. Voysey; the other — now rather familiar and famous — is of Edwin Lutyens, in which the great man holds one of his special small tob - acco pipes while on the table in front, on top of a drawing, is a box of matches with several half - burnt, in addition to a well - sharpened pencil.

McIntyre also addressed this problem: «There is a confounding interaction with TOBS [time of observation] that needs to be allowed for, as has been quickly and correctly pointed out.»

If the period is a year then any TOB from a single day will be averaged over a large number of days and hence will be very small, i.e. TOB must be trivial over a year or longer.