Sentences with phrase «precise temperature readings»

The research team used large bottom - dwelling forams as «paleothermometers» to gain a more precise temperature reading.

Not exact matches

If that reading is over 99 degrees Fahrenheit, take her rectal temperature for a more precise and accurate result.

Their goal was to read all the vital signs of an earthquake — not just fault motions but also the precise pressures, temperatures, strains, and chemical compositions of minerals in the nucleation zone, along with an analysis of rocks and fluids extracted through the drill hole.

So, after reading about climate change for awhile and how the «Temperature of the Earth» has moved up and down in increments of hundredths of a degree, over the past millennium or two, you are looking for a precise, scientific definition of the thing that has varied?

I just thought that since the proxies are all (as far as I know) annual readings such as tree rings or lake sediments they each can be determined to a precise year in the past, and the global temperatures are compared on an annual basis, perhaps you lose accuracy (or is it precision?)