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Others, however, view this analysis as not rigorous enough to
reliably identify measurement error at the precision required for
decadal-scale climate monitoring, and estimate the measurement
error in the MSU trend to be about
±0.1 °C/decade (Hurrell and Trenberth, 1998), or
possibly greater.break
