Sentences with phrase «poor siting»

In other respects, its a fairly poor site.

Poor conversions might results from different factors such as high bounce rates, poor copy or poor site layout.

Further, poor site architecture may make it very difficult to add new articles, pages, and other forms of content to your site.

A recent study conducted by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information found no evidence that the U.S. temperature trend is inflated by poor siting of stations that comprise the US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN).

Disposing of its U.S. portfolio might prove challenging, however, as one of the main reasons Tesco failed in America had to do with poor site selection strategy, according to multiple retail consultants.

It seems likely that similar poor siting biases also exist in global thermometer datasets, and this has probably led to an overestimation of the amount of «global warming» since the 19th century.

Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the study, called the new work encouraging, as it indicates escaped CO2 is not likely to have a perceptible impact, even in a worst - case scenario of poor site selection and leaky wells.

NCEI scientists conducted this study to determine the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous U.S. (CONUS) following photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at USHCN stations.

Of course contrarians will point out that instruments at poorer sites will have a bias, but as tamino (# 91) points out, this bias is corrected for, and it is quite possible that given the methodology employed, removing the urban sites would actually result in a higher average temperature, and as Hansen points out (see tamino's first reference in # 93), the bias introduced by urban sites is quite negligible.

It is quite hard to believe that creeping urbanization and poor site locations, as documented for example here, really net to a cooling bias rather than a warming bias (also see Steve McIntyre's recut of the Peterson urban data here).

The same guide from The Balance cites poor site selection as one of the most common pre-opening decisions that can doom a franchise.

Using a highly complex algorithm with over 200 factors, the search engine giant is on a mission to eliminate poor sites and poor content from its search results — and reward sites that provide useful information and content and actively engage with the social communities around their products and customers.

Menne et al., 2010 suggested that the National Climatic Data Center's step - change adjustments had already accounted for any biases which poor siting may have introduced.

«A careful survey of these stations by a team led by meteorologist Anthony Watts showed that 70 % of these stations have such poor siting that, by the U.S. government's own measure, they result in temperature uncertainties of between two and five degrees Celsius or more.»

The two urban stations at Melbourne and Sydney both showed strong warming, and both have disastrously poor siting of their thermometers in the middle of large cities.

As the U.K. and other developed countries have rushed to build more wind turbines, they have naturally started with the windiest places, leaving poorer sites for later.

I like that CA is trying to get these projects off the ground but as we will later this article discusses poor siting and ovwersight of «ind turbines» placement.

Rambie contends that psychographics has an added advantage of steering users away from poor sites — even those that look good from a demographic perspective.

The data suffers from well known issues with poor siting, UHI, discontinuity, uneven coverage, moving stations, blah... blah... blah.

NCEI scientists conducted this study to determine the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous U.S. (CONUS) following photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at USHCN stations.

Therefore, they concluded that poor siting did not have much effect on the temperature trends.

Menne et al performed an analysis on US surface temperature records and found only very small effects due to poor siting of temperature stations.

It's a good test on a poor site.

A poor site will stop them dead in their tracks.

These issues, which are either not recognized at all in the assessments or are understated, include: - the identification of a warm bias in nighttime minimum temperatures - poor siting of the instrumentation to measure temperatures - the influence of trends in surface air water vapor content on temperature trends - the quantification of uncertainties in the homogenization of surface temperature data, and the influence of land use / land cover change on surface temperature trends.

We found that this poor siting introduced a warming bias into U.S. temperature trends.

Does the effect of this poor siting show up as a difference between the satellite and thermometer record?

During a three - year period, a carbon - poor site on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's Arctic region consistently took up more methane as the ground temperature rose from 0 to 18 degrees Celsius (32 to 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

Previous investigations into how this poor siting has affected estimates of U.S. temperature trends have led to apparently contradictory conclusions.

For the unadjusted station records, this poor siting increased the mean temperature trends by about 32 %.