Robert Rohde Author
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Affiliation
Climate Change, Global Warming, Instrumental Data, Temperature, Data Analysis
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, Novim Group, USA
Robert Andrew Rohde is an American physicist and former graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Richard A. Muller. He received his PhD in 2010 with a thesis entitled The Development and Use of the Berkeley Fluorescence Spectrometer to Characterize Microbial Content and Detect Volcanic Ash in Glacial Ice.He is also the founder of the website Global Warming Art and a Wikipedia editor under the username Dragons Flight.
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Author(s): Richard A Muller, Jonathan Wurtele, Robert Rohde, Robert Jacobsen, Saul Perlmutter, Arthur Rosenfeld, Judith Curry, Donald Groom, Charlotte Wickham and Steven Mosher
Earth Atmospheric Land Surface Temperature and Station Quality in the Contiguous United States
A survey organized by A. Watts has thrown doubt on the usefulness of historic thermometer data in analyzing the record of global warming. That survey found that 70% of the USHCN temperature stations had potential temperature biases from 2°C to 5°C, large compared to the estimated global warming (1956 to 2005) of 0.64 ± 0.13°C. In the current paper we study this issue with two approaches. The first is a simple histogram study of temperature trends in groupings of stations based on Watt’s survey of station quality.
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