Reply #144: Bullshit. [View All]

[lapfog_1]

I dealt with the P0 date (product 0). This was raw instrument readings. Uncalibrated. That's what they mean (what EVERY climate scientist means) when they say "raw data".

Yes, the raw data was adjusted, for for the instrument or source (after that it's P1 data or product 1). MANY MANY steps occur before you start taking into account things like urban sprawl (that's a P3 data set). For remote sensing data you have things like water vapor and atmospheric density... then you start looking at things like ground cover.

When a climate scientist talks about "raw data" they are literally talking about telemetry, whether from a remote sensing satellite or an ocean buoy or automated ship board weather station. It's telemetry data.

You are NOT a climate scientist.

P1 data (calibrated for the instrument that reports it) is of interest to the climate scientists. That's it.

This was stressed to me by every climate scientist that I met in my time at NASA.