Mosher/Curry Say There Is No Urban Heat Island Effect
Posted: February 13, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentReal Science
Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications
Wickham C1 , Rohde R2 , Muller RA3,4 *, Wurtele J3,4 , Curry J5 , Groom D3 , Jacobsen R3,4 , Perlmutter S3,4 , Rosenfeld A3 and Mosher S6
The effect of urban heating on estimates of global average land surface temperature is studied by applying an urban-rural classification based on MODIS satellite data to the Berkeley Earth temperature dataset compilation of 36,869 sites from 15 different publicly available sources
We observe the opposite of an urban heating effect over the period 1950 to 2010, with a slope of -0.10 ± 0.24°C/100yr (2σ error) in the Berkeley Earth global land temperature average. The confidence interval is consistent with a zero urban heating effect, and at most a small urban heating effect (less than 0.14°C/100yr, with 95% confidence) on the scale of the observed…
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