Sentences with phrase «spurious artefacts»

The Bureau of Meteorology's climate data experts carefully analyse records to find and address spurious artefacts in the data, thus developing a consistent — or homogeneous — record of daily temperatures over the last 100 years.

In this way, the unadjusted or «raw» temperature data contains spurious artefacts (including artificial «jumps» in the data in individual site records) from non-climatic factors that are likely to bias derived trends.

Using their recently developed methods for removing spurious artefacts from historic satellite cloud records, Joel Norris et al. have constructed a record of the global pattern of cloud changes between the 1980s and the 2000s.

However, it is now widely agreed that at least some of the cyclone «trends» discovered in the mid-2000s were spurious artefacts.

In 2012, a planet around Alpha Centauri B was announced, but in 2015 a new analysis concluded that it almost certainly does not exist and was just a spurious artefact of the data analysis.