So either get some decent ground stations — and place them to remove the urban /
rural heating problem (which means controlling vegetation for miles around) and / or get some polar orbiting satellites so we have 100 % satellite coverage OR satellites + detailed accurate measurements of part of the global to act as a reference calibration area to improve accuracy of satellites.
Not exact matches
Mother Mary McKillop founded schools for settler families in 19th century Australia and New Zealand... it wasn't just the
heat and hardships in
rural New South Wales, it was
problems with the Bishop, muddles over funding, complications about the status of her Order...
This is one of the main challenges with the urban
heat island
problem — it is harder to keep enough staff to maintain a continuous temperature record at an isolated
rural location for a century (or longer) than in the heart of a thriving metropolis.
This is relevant for the urban
heat island
problem, because we have the same
problem when comparing the urban stations to
rural stations.
The contention is that the urban
heat island effect is too small to be a
problem, but it can easily be shown that
rural sites do not show the warming shown by the urban sites, a significant different is involved.