Sentences with phrase «than the satellite data»

In fact, the Draft TSD [technical supporting documentation] refers almost exclusively in Section 5 to surface rather than satellite data....

Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.

Figure 6F shows that the ratio of model trend to observed trends ranges between about 1.25 and 1.73, meaning that the models predict a trend anywhere from 25 to 73 % larger than the satellite data shows over those 32 years.

My problem is that I can not see how the date measuring OHC can be more precise and accurate than the satellite data.

Isn't it odd that the peaks for the GISS graph are much higher than the satellite data; whereas there is no difference in the «troughs?»

But If monthly data are used, no smoothing is carried out, and the increasing ground - based temperature data during 1978 - 96 is assumed to be replaced with the flat trend line shown in the satellite data, the two data sources would actually appear to be quite consistent except that the ground - based data is generally higher than the satellite data.