Reply #165: There isn't enough information from the posted articles [View All]

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to know what raw data they had and what was the origin.

However, NASA does have complete datasets (both raw, calibrated, and further refined) of ocean and land surface temperatures going back decades) and of calibrated (not raw) datasets for more than a century (nobody recorded raw data back then, all we have are the calibrated instrument readings, and we have to trust the method of calibration).
In addition, NASA has ocean depth temperatures (at different levels of completeness) both raw and calibrated going back several decades, and NASA has CO2 levels going back thousands of years (thanks to ice core data). In addition, NASA has ice coverage data and, more recently, ice thickness data, both raw and calibrated and higher level products. And, in addition, NASA has ocean level data (to varying degrees of certainty) going back millions of years. They also have vegetation date (down to near sq meter resolution) going back decades, both raw and calibrated, And water vapor, and cloud cover, and so on. I probably have touched on only a little bit of the data that's been collected and stored.

The amount of data is staggering. Literally Petabytes, 10s to 100s of Petabytes by now, possibly Exabytes. A Petabyte is a million Gigabytes. If you have a 500GB disk drive, NASA has 20,000 of them full of climate data.


And NASA isn't the only repository.

Here is a link to the current repositories just in the United States, not including partial repositories for specific data sets at various Universities and foreign governments.

http://esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov/dataaccess/datacenters_img.html



And this doesn't include the "safety in numbers" backup sites.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure that this group at some university has a constructed partial data collection distributed in full or in part by one of the NASA centers.