There is little disagreement between us on the broad trends when seasonal and
spatial sampling issues, and differing conventions for e.g. defining reference periods, have been taken appropriately into account.
However, other 19th Century temperature compilations such Berkeley Earth show larger responses to Tambora — though there are
spatial sampling issues there as well.
So it's not a corruption of the data and it's not
a spatial sampling issue.
Not exact matches
The
sampling issues arise from the fact that sea ice is highly dynamic with lots of
spatial and seasonal variability so that measurements from individual moorings, submarine sonar tracks, and aircraft flights can only construct an incomplete picture of the evolution of the total Arctic sea ice volume.
While these methods are heavily used, there are concerns regarding the distributions of available measurements, how well these
sample the globe, and such
issues as the degree to which the methods have
spatial and seasonal biases or apparent divergence in the relationship with recent climate change.
This charts shows one of the
issues with previously constructed
spatial records, prior to 1973 there are far fewer
samples available to reconstruct the surface record thereby increasing the error on any value generated (note the last count listed was just the count of the original data set worked with, these charts have a full set of data through 2012).
However,
spatial sampling is still an
issue in the higher latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, and ensuring the homogeneity of these data in the face of urbanization and changes incontinue
It is not recommended to use active fire locations to estimate burned area due to
spatial and temporal
sampling issues.
Another
issue is whether the
spatial and temporal
sampling of the ocean heat content accurately captures the regions and depths at which heat changes are occurring.
Idavidcooke, the (over)
sampling and uncertainty
issues I was talking about are
SPATIAL issues.