It would take much better paleo data to sort out the poles, until then, all we have is roughly 50
year smoothed data based on isotope ratios that seem to be reasonable trustworthy and tonyb:)
They make a great deal of the fact that we only plotted the ~ 50
year smoothed data rather than the annual means.
Not exact matches
According to Canadian taxfiler
data, over the last thirty
years there has been a surge in the income shares of the top 1 %, top 0.1 % and top 0.01 % of income recipients, even with longitudinal
smoothing by individual using three - or five -
year moving averages.
When indicators are measured consistently
year over
year, combining multiple
years of
data can
smooth the effects of outlier performances in a single
year.
My model uses the
smoothed data from the Federal Reserve H15 series, which dates as far back as 1962, though some series, like the 30 -
year, date back to 1977, and have an interruption from 2002 - 2005, after the 30 -
year ceased to be issued for a time.
They also use more than one
year of
data, to
smooth out irregularities such as large one - time donations.
A linear regression fit to your
smoothed data in the graph sampled every 3
years or so gives a downward trend with a value of about 7 % of the size of a solar cycle over the 40 -
year span observed.
The seasonal aspects of the
data are modelled via a cyclic
smoother on day - of -
year or numeric month - of -
year.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for
smoothing temporal
data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational
data for a 50 - 70
year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
But most of that work is based on «
smoothed» or «filtered» versions of the
data (ie, filters that remove all variability on timescales less than ~ 10
years).
Either «something» caused that and, not being man - made GHGs or (obviously) sulphate aerosols, it would be quite safe to call it a natural phenomenon Well, if you insist on looking at individual
years and * not *
smoothing the
data at all, then given that interannual variability can quite easily be.15 oC, we can take.3 oC away as it is meaningless chaos and not indicative of a trend.
Nature is a nonlinear dynamic system, you are starring on the selected,
smoothed linear Mauna Loa
data in a 50
years time window at 4 km altitude.
When all these factors are put together, we get a composite model which matches reality: Almost impossible to separate the
data from the model except for the effects of a 3 -
year exponential
smoothing at the beginning of the time series.
Here's the Berkeley
data (minus the final two «don't belong»
data points), together with a lowess
smooth on a 10 -
year time scale:
I have kept similar tabs on HadCRUT3v but using an 11
year binomial
smoothing and the same sharp downtrend is present over the past decade (the peak being 2003 to 2005 depending on whether you look at the global
data, the Sh or the NH).
Climate Models
smooth the
data for the past ten thousand
years and then put modern warming on the end of the stick.
If the Met Office have implied anything different, then I would agree that there are grounds for criticism.You need to look at the long term trend with at least a five
year smoothing applied to annual
data points.
Leif Svalgaard, wrote [of Le Mouël, Blanter, Shnirman, & Courtillot (2010)-RSB-, «Second, the
data is heavily
smoothed [4 -
year sliding window which reduces the number of degrees of freedom enormously and makes the
data points very dependent on each other].»
Second, the
data is heavily
smoothed [4 -
year sliding window which reduces the number of degrees of freedom enormously and makes the
data points very dependent on each other].
Svalgaard's target
data appears to be the 21 -
year GSN
smoothed average that levels out the sunspot record in order to show underlying long term trends.
You are saying the temperature
data can be fitted by an exponential (modeling AGW) plus a «sawtooth» (harmonics thereof, with 6 free parameters), representing multi-decadal effects plus periodic terms with period less than 22
years that are
smoothed away as noise.
Note that the modern observational
data in this figure extend through 2008, and thus it is a close approximation of current conditions, even though the extent is not as low as current annual
data due to the 40 -
year smoothing.
Try applying 30 -
year or even 50 -
year smoothing to the
data — that ought to do the trick, except all you'll be left with is a valueless straight line.
I think you can also see the fundamental problem with taking that
smoothed data set and just throwing it in with actual temperature measurements with all of their
year - to -
year and decade - to - decade variations.
Albeit accurate, this recent 12 month
data for each location should be considered statistically unreliable due to its brevity compared with «climate normals» that have typical
year - to -
year weather variations
smoothed over standard periods (commonly 30
years).
Since
year - to -
year spikes in the proxy
data may just be noise that brings in other confounding factors, scientists average them out to get a nice
smooth graph that is meaningful, not on a
year - to -
year or decade - to - decade level, but on a scale of centuries.
Also, if we look at the graphs above with the NINO3, 4 SST anomalies
smoothed with a 31 -
year filter (Figures 3, 7 and 12), there aren't two complete cycles in the
data that runs from 1880 to 2009.
Cautionary note: For work on multidecadal timescales, repeat 1
year smoothing is (for many
data exploration purposes, not all) superior to use of wide boxcar kernels.
The proxy
data smooths anything going on at less than 300-3000
years (figure S18 in the SI).
Notice how the
smoothing line stops five
years short of the end of the unsmoothed
data.
I used 31 -
year smoothing in the post for the NINO3.4
data.
For the period prior to 1985, the same time constant (one
year) was used to
smooth noisy
data, preserving the integral of optical depth over several
years around time of a given volcano.
The term harmonization is defined as a procedure whereby emission outputs from the IAMs are adjusted in such a way that emissions in the reference
year are equal to some reference
data set (with these adjustments extended into the future, in some manner, to assure
smooth data sets).
And the latter
years there are a lot of stations included, and if I made up
data for 80 % of the planet I could make nice
smooth graphs too, but what I produce shows there's no trend in loss of cooling due to co2.
There is contamination of the air in the bubble by water; different results are obtained if the ice is crushed or melted to obtain the air sample; it takes decades for the air bubble to form; the raw
data was
smoothed out by a 70
year moving average that removed the great annual variability found in the 19th century and Stomata Index (SI) records; closer examination revealed a major flaw in the hypothesis because temperature rises before CO2.
Even that
smoothed graph shows the increase rate was negative from 1974 to 1976, from 1985 to 1987, from 1990 to 1997, and since 2010 (although you don't say how you obtained a 9 -
year mean for
data before 1967 and after 1999).
Once this
data error was corrected, estimates of ocean warming over the past 40
years were much
smoother, and the large «bump» in the 1970s and 80s more or less disappeared from the record.
It is traditional to use moving averages of the
data to
smooth out
year - to -
year changes that can not be anticipated by any climate model.
And the 450,000
year CO2 percentage graph mixes
data smoothed with a moving average of unspecified length with raw
data for the last few
years - it is not a valid comparison.
Indeed climate has obviously switched to a cool mode, since at least 10
years, as it already did in 1880 and 1940, due to a change of PDO... Actually the best way to identify those change of climate regime is to perform
data smoothing:
And different nations may account their
years from different start months so 3 -
year smoothing of the
data is justifiable.
But even if the resolution was 30
years, if the
data was
smoothed over 5 points, you would not see any sharp features.
He also shows a lag of five
years eliminated by the 70
year smoothing applied to the ice core
data that eliminates or masks most diagnostic information.
This is achieved empirically by aligning and averaging measured ring widths from all available samples by relative age (assuming in this case that the first sample ring represented the first
year of the tree's lifespan, and making no allowance for assumed difference from the true germination
year) and using an age - related
smoothing of these
data (Melvin et al 2007) to provide a practical reference curve.
The reason I used a 5 -
year smooth on the first graph is that using monthly or annual
data makes the difference between adjusted and raw
data too difficult to see due to monthly and annual variability in temperatures.
Then we use available long - term proxies of the solar activity, which are 10Be isotope concentrations in ice cores and 22 -
year smoothed neutron monitor
data, to interpolate between the present quiet Sun and the minimum state of the quiet Sun.
Presumably if we did a 40
year smoothing on the temperature record of the last 100
years it would show a lot less variation than when we show the
data in an annual form — but would it mean missing out a lot of the useful information and giving a misleading impression?
In the south, just a little bit more
smoothing would remove that 15 - 20
year spike starting 1935ish and leave one continuous warming» You leave me with the impression that you're looking for a «good behaviour» of the
data that simply isn't there, Coby.
The higher correlation values were achieved by the use of 12 - month
smoothing, as the short - term (< 1
year) variability in the
data was dampened, indicating that the higher (but still non-significant) correlations arose from the long - term variations: this is problematic to the MS00 hypothesis of a causal CR - cloud explanation for their results for reasons which will be outlined in the remainder of this section.
Why do they use anomalies and 5
years smoothing to hide the
data?