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Hindi Research Article, Geoinfor Geostat An Overview Vol: 1 Issue: 3
Earth Atmospheric Land Surface Temperature and Station Quality in the Contiguous United States
| Richard A Muller1,2,3*, Jonathan Wurtele2,3, Robert Rohde1, Robert Jacobsen2,3, Saul Perlmutter2,3, Arthur Rosenfeld2,3, Judith Curry4,Donald Groom3, Charlotte Wickham5 and Steven Mosher1 | |
| 1Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, USA | |
| 2University of California, Berkeley, USA | |
| 3Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | |
| 4Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | |
| 5Oregon State University, USA | |
| Corresponding author : Richard A Muller Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, 2831 Garber St., Berkeley CA 94705, USA E-mail: RAMuller@LBL.gov |
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| Received: February 15, 2013 Accepted: May 15, 2013 Published: May 20, 2013 | |
| Citation: Muller RA, Wurtele J, Rohde R, Jacobsen R, Perlmutter S, et al. (2013) Earth Atmospheric Land Surface Temperature and Station Quality in the Contiguous United States. Geoinfor Geostat: An Overview 1:3. doi:10.4172/2327-4581.1000107 |
Abstract
Earth Atmospheric Land Surface Temperature and Station Quality in the Contiguous United States
A survey organized by A. Watts has thrown doubt on the usefulness of historic thermometer data in analyzing the record of global warming. That survey found that 70% of the USHCN temperature stations had potential temperature biases from 2°C to 5°C, large compared to the estimated global warming (1956 to 2005) of 0.64 ± 0.13°C. In the current paper we study this issue with two approaches. The first is a simple histogram study of temperature trends in groupings of stations based on Watt’s survey of station quality.
