How accurate are satellite ‘thermometers’?

John R. Christy (), Roy W. Spencer and William D. Braswell
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John R. Christy: University of Alabama in Huntsville
Roy W. Spencer: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
William D. Braswell: Nichols Research Corporation/GHCC

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6649, 342-342

Abstract: Abstract We believe that lower-tropospheric temperatures measured directly by satellites have excellent long-term accuracy, as seen by comparisons with independent atmospheric measurements from weather balloons. Our results contradict indirect measurements by Hurrell and Trenberth1 who claimed that the satellite data have significant discontinuities.

Date: 1997
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