Sentences with phrase «weather stations around the world»

Usually scientists rely on the temperature over land, taken from weather stations around the world for the last 150 years, to show global warming.
They started collecting temperature data from weather stations around the world.
The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world and analysed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Whereas meteorological variables like temperature, humidity, winds and precipitation were routinely measured at weather stations around the world, there were little or no observations of land surface states like soil temperature, moisture, and snow mass, or important terms of surface energy and water budgets such as shortwave and longwave radiation, evaporation or sensible heat fluxes.
His figures from 147 weather stations around the world showed that average global temperatures increased by 0.59 F from 1880 to 1935 — double what he had predicted based on increasing carbon dioxide.
Urban areas are warmer than rural areas, and many weather stations around the world have become surrounded by urban sprawl since the Industrial Revolution.
Dropped stations introduce warming bias «Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.»
In the paper1, the authors used data from weather stations around the world; those in China «were selected on the basis of station history: we chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times», they wrote.
Last week, the UK's Met Office attempted to quell the growing anger at its lack of openness by «releasing» data from 1700 weather stations around the world.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected.
Besides these thousands of thermometer readings from weather stations around the world, there are many other clear indicators of global warming such as rising ocean temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric humidity, and declining snow cover, glacier mass, and sea ice.
When scientists in the 1960s - 70s compiled data to build their global average temperature series they used state averages of monthly mean temperatures from weather stations around the world.
The German scientist then randomly selected 120 weather stations around the world and manually compared the archived data to GISS» 2012 temperature records.
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