Sentences with phrase «what observational dataset»
In short, irrespective of what observational dataset was used — it's likely that an estimate of forced response made in 2014 would be biased cold, which on its own would translate to an overestimate of the available budget of about 40GtC.
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So what we are really interested in is the waiting time to the next unambiguous record i.e. a record that is at least 0.1 ºC warmer than the previous one (so that it would be clear in all observational datasets).
Which is pretty much exactly what I wrote in my original response with a few additional details about reconciling the differences between observational datasets.
They are perhaps the largest uncertainty in our understanding of climate change, owing to disagreement among climate models and observational datasets over what cloud changes have occurred during recent decades and will occur in response to global warming2, 3.
The basic observational result seems to be similar to what we can produce but use of slightly different datasets, such as the EBAF CERES dataset, changes the results to be somewhat less in magnitude.