Sentences with phrase «old glass thermometers»

He then essentially proves that correcting station data for known biases such as introducing new sensors that read a bit lower than the old glass thermometers on average changes the trend.

Hypothetically old glass thermometers just wouldn't be as good at generating headlines.

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However, if the discontinuity was cause by and old Liquid - in - Glass thermometer (which had experienced zero creep) being replaced with a new thermometer, then the appropriate correction would be to assume that the new thermometer was correct, and the old thermometer was correct when installed, and to scale the old thermometer readings down proportionally over the life of the old thermometer.

There is a study of a German transition from traditional glass mercury thermometer measurement stations to the new electronic measurement system, http://notrickszone.com/2015/01/14/germanys-warming-happens-to-coincide-with-late-20th-century-implementation-of-digital-measurement/, where a side - by - side run of the old and new equipment for 8.5 years found that the new equipment yielded a temperature reading 0.93 C higher on average.