Measuring Global Temperatures
Ian Strangeways
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Description for Measuring Global Temperatures
hardcover. An explanation of how global temperatures are measured and analysed, for meteorologists, climatologists and hydrologists. Num Pages: 252 pages, 76 b/w illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 252 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 644.
Temperature is probably the most influential of all climatic variables. Our only direct, quantitative knowledge of global temperatures comes from instruments operated over the last 150 or so years. Yet as crucial and as central as these data are to our understanding of the climate, they are largely taken for granted, even by many of those using them. Measuring Global Temperatures will fill this gap by explaining how global temperatures are measured, how the data are analysed, what the potential errors are, and what needs to be done to improve temperature measurement in the future. The book is of great ... Read more
Temperature is probably the most influential of all climatic variables. Our only direct, quantitative knowledge of global temperatures comes from instruments operated over the last 150 or so years. Yet as crucial and as central as these data are to our understanding of the climate, they are largely taken for granted, even by many of those using them. Measuring Global Temperatures will fill this gap by explaining how global temperatures are measured, how the data are analysed, what the potential errors are, and what needs to be done to improve temperature measurement in the future. The book is of great ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521898485
SKU
V9780521898485
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Ref
99-16
About Ian Strangeways
Ian Strangeways obtained his degree in electronic engineering, physics and mathematics from Bangor University, followed by a PhD in meteorological instrumentation from Reading University. After 24 years at the Institute of Hydrology as head of the Applied Physics Section, concerned with measuring the hydrometeorological environment, he became Director of TerraData, a consultancy in meteorological and hydrological data collection. He is ... Read more
Reviews for Measuring Global Temperatures
'I can thoroughly recommend this book to the scientific community and to the layman with concern for climate and what may or may not be happening to it.' John Rodda, The Newsletter of the British Hydrological Society '… an excellent account of the problems and difficulties encountered in measuring global mean temperature, an important climate variable which has become perhaps ... Read more