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World's temperature records available via Google Earth
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World's Temperature Records Available Via Google Earth
London: World's temperature records have been reportedly made available through Google Earth by climate researchers at the University of East Anglia.
The new Google Earth format allows users to scroll around the world, zoom in on 6,000 weather stations, see some 20,000 graphs, and view monthly, seasonal and annual temperature data more easily than ever before with some records dating back to 1850.
Dr Tim Osborn from UEA's Climatic Research Unit said that the beauty of using Google Earth is that one can instantly see where the weather stations are, zoom in on specific countries, and see station datasets much more clearly.
Osborn said that the data comes from the latest CRUTEM4 figures, which have been freely available via the Met Office and on their website, but they wanted to make the key temperature dataset as interactive and user-friendly as possible.
Google Earth's version for tracking climate shows the globe split into 5 degree latitude andlongitude grid boxes in red and green, and when a grid box is clicked, it reveals the area's annual temperatures, as well as links to more detailed downloadable station data.
Osborn pointed out there are some gaps in the grid as those areas have no weather stations such as the Sahara, and users might spot location of weather stations shown differing from their actual locations, but this isn't a problem scientifically as the temperature records do not depend on the precise location of each station.
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