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I have a Master's degree in physics from the University of Copenhagen and I have taught together with one of the leading climate scientists from that university
by sword_smith 9y ago
I have a Master's degree in physics from the University of Copenhagen and I have taught together with one of the leading climate scientists from that university Bo Møllesøe Vinther. He claimed that the best dataset on global average temperatures is satellite based and is the University of Alabama in Huntington dataset (UAH) which goes back to 1979.
You can find it here:
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
Direct link for monthly temperature averages:
http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0beta5.txt http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6....
- prewett 9y agoWouldn't you need data going back for thousands of years? 40 years of data won't tell you anything about the cause of the temperatures in this data set. You'll need to eliminate the possibility that we are in a Little Heat Wave cycle; if you got forty years of temperature data during the beginning of the Little Ice Age, you won't have a representative sample, for instance.
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- mapster 9y agoIts a unique dataset. it does not portend to be a multi-source long history dataset. you raise a question re: long term trends which is another topic.