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Taking the Temperature of the Earth

Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change
By:Author
Publisher:Elsevier S & T
Print ISBN:9780128144589
eText ISBN:9780128144596
Edition:0
Copyright:2019
Format:Reflowable

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Taking the Temperature of the Earth: Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change presents an integrated, collaborative approach to observing and understanding various surface temperatures from a whole-Earth perspective. The book describes the progress in improving the quality of surface temperatures across different domains of the Earth’s surface (air, land, sea, lakes and ice), assessing variability and long-term trends, and providing applications of surface temperature data to detect and better understand Earth system behavior.

As cooperation is essential between scientific communities, whose focus on particular domains of Earth’s surface and on different components of the observing system help to accelerate scientific understanding and multiply the benefits for society, this book bridges the gap between domains.

  • Includes sections on data validation and uncertainty, data availability and applications
  • Integrates remote sensing and in situ data sources
  • Presents a whole earth perspective on surface temperature datasets, delving into all domains to build and understand relationships between the datasets