Sentences with phrase «smoothed background rate»
mike @ 1, I see you are back to the slightly more «skyrockety» CO2 - rise of «I think current smoothed background rate is in the 2.4 to 2.5 ppm range.»
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
I think it's interesting to track CO2 and CO2e, but the tracks have the periodic ups and downs related to LN and EN conditions, so I do bote calculations to attempt to smooth those out for the purpose of estimating the background rate of increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.
the next few years «rebounded» in yoy increase number, but that's an illusion, a wobble created by the bump of EN and dip on LN years, background rate is buried within the numbers and can be teased out with smoothing.
Specifically, smoothing sea - level data (adjusting for natural variability of ENSO) over the past century fits most closely with a 4th degree polynomial model, and there has very likely not been any slowing in the longer - term background rate of sea level rise over the period of the tropospheric «pause».