The satellite data and
weather balloon temperatures are not nearly as «hard» as they were portrayed in the hearing.
However, some global warming skeptics had argued that
weather balloon temperatures were accurate — and models that predicted global warming were wrong.
If this was so,
the weather balloon temperature data would be higher than the «correct» value.
Not exact matches
The National Eclipse
Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100
weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as
temperature and wind speed.
It's OK to state that, «The common belief that carbon dioxide is driving climate change is at odds with much of the available scientific data: data from
weather balloons and satellites, from ice core surveys, and from the historical
temperature records» when this is clearly untrue.
Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term
temperature data recorded from satellite and
weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982
weather stations across the continent.
This
weather balloon will mostly measure
temperature, air pressure, and wind speed, but others sample the air for the concentration of various gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen.
In addition to the surface data described above, measurements of
temperature above the surface have been made with
weather balloons, with reasonable coverage over land since 1958, and from satellite data since 1979.
This involves a combination of satellite observations (when different satellites captured
temperatures in both morning and evening), the use of climate models to estimate how
temperatures change in the atmosphere over the course of the day, and using reanalysis data that incorporates readings from surface observations,
weather balloons and other instruments.
However the
temperature signal is a splice of
weather balloon data (RATPAC - A) to the end of 1979 followed by satellite data (UAH TLT) since 1980.
None of these reanalyses directly use the surface
temperature data so their returned surface estimate is a combination of a state of the art data assimilation scheme and much of the rest of the surface observing system (satellites,
weather balloons, surface pressure, sea surface
temperatures, etc.).
Consequently it won't fully appear in the satellite or
weather balloon data, which record
temperatures in that layer, until this year.
The year 1979 saw the launch of the first
temperature - gauging satellites, and suddenly we were not limited to data from ground stations, sea buoys, merchant vessels, and
weather balloons.
This warming can be seen in measurements of troposphere
temperatures measured by
weather balloons and satellites, in measurements of ocean heat content, sea surface
temperature (measured in situ and by satellites), air
temperatures over the ocean, air
temperature over land.
Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from
Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of
balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national
weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric
temperature changes than is available from
temperature changes than is available from satellites.
By contrast, atmospheric
temperatures measured from
weather satellites show only insignificant warming between 1978 and 1997 — as do the independent data from
weather balloons around the world.
However,
temperature readings taken from
weather balloons and satellites have, according to most analysts, shown little if any warming there compared to the surface.
Well, there are a series of now infamous graphs and studies which actaully «hid» the long term
temperature data which supported the
weather balloon results.
Citing the work of Dr. John Christy and Richard McNider at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which compared climate model projections with
temperatures measured independently by satellites and
weather balloons, he said «the average warming predicted to have occurred since 1979 (when the satellite data starts) is approximately three times larger than what is being observed.»
Further, the
temperature calculations are independently confirmed by four different sets of
weather balloons that measure atmospheric
temperatures using thermometers.
Measurements by
weather balloons, the main method used to measure
temperatures at the time, only test a small sliver of the atmosphere and are far from comprehensive.
Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global
temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and
weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.
Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global
temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and
weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.
To calculate the molar densities from the
weather balloon measurements, we converted all of the pressures and
temperatures into units of Pa and K, and then determined the values at each pressure using D = n / V =P / RT, where R is the ideal gas constant (8.314 J / K / mol)
The chart above compares actual
temperatures from the earth's bulk atmosphere as measured by satellites and
weather balloons, to average theoretical
temperatures from 102 model runs.
For two of our papers, we analysed the
temperatures at different heights in the atmosphere using measurements from
weather balloons, similar to this one.
Our scripts systematically analysed all of the available
weather balloon records to identify the pressure and
temperature at which the phase change occurred, i.e., the transition between Region 1 and Region 2.
Therefore we reasoned that, by studying the experimental
temperature profiles (e.g., using
weather balloons), we could quantify the magnitude of the greenhouse effect for each profile at all altitudes, by subtracting the parts of the
temperature profile that could be explained in terms of the thermodynamic properties of the bulk gases (i.e., nitrogen & oxygen).
The land based stations have had their temps «adjusted» to make it appear so, yet
weather balloon and satelitte data show there has been no rise in
temperatures for approximately the last 20 years.
Studies involving 28 million
weather balloons, thousands of satellite recordings, 3,000 ocean buoys,
temperature recordings from 50 sites in the US and a 1,000 years of
temperature proxies suggest that the Global Climate Models overestimate positive feedback and are based on poor assumptions.
Based mostly upon surface thermometers, the official pronouncement ignores the other two primary ways of measuring global air
temperatures, satellites and radiosondes (
weather balloons).
The primary ways to monitor global average air
temperatures are surface based thermometers (since the late 1800s), radiosondes (
weather balloons, since about the 1950s), and satellites measuring microwave emissions (since 1979).
Canadian climate model simulations of mid-troposphere 300 mbar tropical
temperatures and
weather balloon observations.
These include measurements taken from land - based
temperature stations (mostly using mercury thermometers), ocean buoys, ships, satellites, and
weather balloons.
The ten indicators of climate change include measurements of sea level rise taken from ships, the
temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from
weather balloons and field surveys of melting glaciers.
Temperature records from around the world — from
weather stations in both urban and rural areas, and from
weather balloons and satellites — tell us the world is warming.
Until James Hansen can correctly interpret the
temperature data from satellite and
weather balloon readings, and stop altering the historical data to fit his paradigm, (what is it now, at least 3 times he has been caught publishing erroneous data?)
Note that the RATPAC radiosonde (
weather balloon) data are in close agreement with the higher tropospheric
temperature estimates, as are the HadAT2 radiosonde data (Figure 3).
I am looking for
weather balloon data with the basics: date, location, altitude and
temperature.
While the satellite dataset has its strengths, unlike thermometers and
temperature probes used on
weather balloons the Microwave Sounding Units were new, largely untested tools when they were put into space.
Because the satellite data measure an average
temperature through a depth of several kilometres in the atmosphere, they would be expected to compare better with upper - air measurements taken using
weather balloons and radiosondes than they would with measurements at the surface.
This graph shows the predictions of various IPCC global climate models (lines with no squares or circles) compared to global
temperature measurements made by
weather balloons (circles) and satellites (squares).
Over the years the makers of
weather balloons had come up with better methods of preventing or correcting for this effect, but because no one had taken these improvements into account, the more accurate measurements appeared to show daytime
temperatures getting cooler.
At that time, there was insufficient observational data to test this prediction, but
temperature measurements from
weather balloons and satellites have since confirmed these early forecasts.
Average of the IPCC computer model projections for the tropical mid-troposphere versus three standard sets of observations:
weather balloons,
temperature sensed from satellites, and «reanalysis» data used to initialize the daily
weather map.
For decades,
weather balloons have been sent aloft to take
temperature readings at various heights in the atmosphere.
It can detect altitude,
temperature, humidity, and motion, but I wasn't ready for building robots or
weather balloons just yet, so I stuck to making voice assistants.