Sentences with phrase «weather measurement station»

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Additionally, the Thruway Authority is in the process of installing up to 12 Mesonet snow measurement weather stations that will allow for real - time, localized weather and snowfall rate monitoring.

O'Keefe said the flood in the village shows the limits of flash flood forecasting, which relies on Doppler radar; rainfall measurements from ground stations, like the New York State Mesonet, a network of more than 120 weather stations across the state; and reports from ground observers.

Observation - based data sets, which focus mainly on local and regional climate, are obtained by taking raw climate measurements from weather stations and applying it to a grid defined over the globe.

For the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC with its ground stations and modern weather satellites provide reliable global data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapor.

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.

Because weather station locations and measurements change over time, there is some uncertainty in the individual values in the GISTEMP index.

NASA's analyses incorporate surface temperature measurements from 6,300 weather stations, ship - and buoy - based observations of sea surface temperatures, and temperature measurements from Antarctic research stations.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

That changed in 2014, when the U.K.'s Met Office published a humidity dataset compiled from measurements taken at weather stations since 1973.

The size of the temperature increase was calculated from thousands of measurements from more than 6,000 weather stations, ship - and buoy - based observations of sea surface temperatures, and measurements across Antarctic research stations.

Projects in the programme include Penthouse 4C, a half - size replica of the Barbican Estate's largest apartment reconstructed in the central foyer, confusing notions of private and public space whilst providing an iconic stage for workshops and performances; Unmoored, a weather station installed on the roof beaming data to screens throughout the centre to transform the Barbican into an airship in motion; meanwhile the Barbican's lower level cloakroom will become the Ministry of Measurement whose bureaucratic functionaries will send members of the public scurrying off with instructions to recover data from around the centre and bring it back to be filed and processed.

(1) In addition to the data of the near - surface temperatures, which are composed of measurements from weather stations and sea surface temperatures, there is also the microwave data from satellites, which can be used to estimate air temperatures in the troposphere in a few kilometers altitude.

In the new study, scientists took into account satellite measurements to interpolate temperatures in the vast areas between the sparse weather stations.

He presents measurements from over a dozen weather stations in the Northern Hemisphere where temperatures show a cooling trend in March.

The cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic is remarkable and well documented by numerous measurements — unlike the cold spot in central Africa, which on closer inspection apparently is an artifact of incomplete and inhomogeneous weather station data.

How to avoid problems with most land - based temperature weather stations: Use lighthouses as thermometers for accurate and unbiased measurement of surface air temperature.

On any given day, there is one temperature measurement for each weather station (or equivalent) active on that day.

Unlike the ground weather station measurements, these sample the entire world evenly, and sample at several heights in the air.

The official Death Valley temperature measurements are (currently) made at the weather station that was set up just NNW of the Visitors Center in 1961.

To conduct its analysis, GISS uses publicly available data from three sources: weather data from more than a thousand meteorological stations around the world; satellite observations of sea surface temperature; and Antarctic research station measurements.

It investigated «thousands of e-mails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit» and found «evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced.»

Because the locations and measurement practices of weather stations change over time, there are uncertainties in the interpretation of specific year - to - year global mean temperature differences.

So, when the automatic weather station which now operates in the town of Goulburn (not far from Canberra), recorded a measurement of minus -LSB-...]

Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather stations on land, satellite measurements of sea ice temperature since 1982 and data from ships for earlier years.

The GISS team measured temperatures using records from land - based weather stations, and ship and satellite measurements of sea - surface temperature.

These are created by combining ship - and buoy - based measurements of ocean sea surface temperatures with temperature readings of the surface air temperature from weather stations on land.

The temperature analysis produced at GISS is compiled from weather data from more than 1,000 meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of sea - surface temperature, and Antarctic research station measurements.

There are serious problems with all the current measurements from surface stations to satellites, but a major one is the contamination of the surface readings by changes in the physical conditions around the weather station.

Contours are rainfall totals from the Canadian Precipitation Analysis, which combines weather model output with station measurements to estimate regional precipitation amounts.

By carefully planning and maintaining these pristine stations and by using the best technology available, this large - scale experiment eliminates the following problems with the older weather measurement network:

Another recommendation from the team is to increase access to multi-year wind measurements at specific locations, particularly where planners currently rely on short - term wind measurements or measurements from nearby weather stations.

Within the climate science realm, the old climate / weather station system had long been considered the best and most complete measurement network in the world.

These include the primary surface temperature thermometer records (NASA GISS, NOAA, and HadCRUT); satellite measurements of the lower troposphere temperature processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH); and 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data, buoy and ship measurements, and meteorological weather modeling.

The apparent attempts to cover up problems with temperature data from the Chinese weather stations provide the first link between the email scandal and the UN's embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.

This implies that the whole region is actually in a relatively warm period, and this is based on measurements that are totally independent of the weather station at Svalbard airport.

An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian - among the most aggressive advocates for action on climate change - has found that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

The SST data are a little more complex than the weather station data with which most of use are familiar: Whereas temperature measurements at weather stations have been performed according to a standard protocol for over a century, measurement methods for SST data have changed significantly over the same period.

The temperature analysis produced at GISS is compiled from weather data from more than 1,000 meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of sea surface temperature and Antarctic research station measurements.

The temperature measurements collected by the Bureau are from thermometers — most recently electronic sensors as part of automatic weather stations within Stevenson screens — and are what are referred to as surface temperature measurements.

The answer is there are serious problems with all the current measurements from surface stations to satellites, but a major one is the contamination of the surface readings by changes in the physical conditions around the weather station.

Global warming believer - turned - skeptic Anthony Watts, a former TV meteorologist, posted a new report online questioning the reliability of weather stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network, a 120 - year - old weather system that forms one tent pole of climate measurements.

And years of painstaking temperature measurements from thousands of weather station records, have confirmed a slow inexorable rise in that overall temperature across the globe.

These include measurements taken from land - based temperature stations (mostly using mercury thermometers), ocean buoys, ships, satellites, and weather balloons.

ChinaGate — An investigation by the U.K.'s left - leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located.

In contrast to surface data, these satellite data cover the whole Earth, are fully disclosed, and are not contaminated by poor maintenance and location of weather stations, changes from mercury to electronic measurement, and unexplained adjustments.

The reason Lut didn't previously make the list was because «the Earth's hot deserts — such as the Sahara, the Gobi, the Sonoran and the Lut — are climatically harsh and so remote that access for routine measurements and maintenance of a weather station is impractical,» said team member David Mildrexler.

To answer this question I looked at more than just the traditional Hadley, NASA and NOAA datasets, but also the measurements of the lower troposphere processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) as well as the 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data and meteorological weather modeling.

While there are few ground - based weather stations in the North Pacific to tally how much rain fell over the ocean, satellites such as those participating in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can estimate precipitation rates from above.

Astute observers will be aware that weather stations don't take a single temperature measurement at the observation time.

A time - integrated statistical mean of weather station measurements?