Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The vertical profile of temperature changes is particularly important because it provides a fingerprint of the mechanisms responsible for past changes. This topic is of substantial interest to the climate research community, especially the key issues of data quality, datamodel agreement, and monitoring of future climate change.
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The report presents results from UAH, RSS, and University of Maryland (IJMD) satellite data and effectively treats the UAH and RSS results as equal independent estimates with a lesser discussion of UMD results because the latter do not include a diurnal correction and because their newest analysis appeared only recently.
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A possible strategy is to bring forward key bullet points from each chapter as answers to the six main chapter questions, followed by brief explanatory text, key figures, and implications for understanding within each chapter. The Executive Summary should reflect an appropriate balance of new results and outstanding uncertainties.
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