Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change (2000) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
5 Introduction
5 Introduction
Pages 29-31
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 29... ...
The satellite measurements of tropospheric temperature are the only ones that provide comprehensive global coverage, but rather intricate processing is required in order to infer gIobal-mean temperature trends from the raw radiance data, and these trends have proven difficult to validate independently. Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon-borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.
|
From page 30... ...
in o · L
|
From page 31... ...
Chapters 6, 7, and ~ present this basic background information, and the final chapter (9) discusses the issues involved in making comparisons between the different kinds of measurements.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.