Rohde R Author
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Climate Change, Global Warming, Instrumental Data, Temperature, Data Analysis
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, Novim Group, USA
Robert Andrew 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): Wickham C, Rohde R, Muller RA, Wurtele J, Curry J, Groom D, Jacobsen R, Perlmutter S, Rosenfeld A and Mosher S
Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications
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 compare the distribution of linear temperature trends for these sites to the distribution for a rural subset of 15,594 sites chosen to be distant from all MODISidentified urban areas. While the trend distributions are broad, with one-third of the stations in the US and wo... view moreĀ»