Livermom climatologists The National Laboratory suspected that satellite data on temperature in the Land Troposphere may underestimate global warming over the past 40 years. This is reported in a press release on the website of the scientific organization.
Researchers studied four different characteristics of a change in tropical climate, each of which is the ratio of two variables correlating, for example, the temperature and concentration of water vapor. Three first characteristics are described by the relationship between the humidity and temperature of the sea surface, the temperature of the lower part of the troposphere and the temperature in the upper layers of the troposphere (TMT), respectively. The fourth characteristic was the ratio between the temperature of the sea surface and TMT. All correlations are determined by well-known physical processes.
Reliable climatic models rigidly limit all four ratios, but the latter demonstrate broad ranges when they are calculated based on satellite observations. The models begin to match the observations when the data is taken on the basis of the higher surface temperature of the ocean and the troposphere.
If the results of the climate model, which takes into account the relationship between tropical temperature and humidity, are realistic, this means that satellite data is either systematically understood by the tropospheric temperature, or inlander the atmospheric humidity. At the moment, it is difficult to determine which interpretation is believable, however, data sets are diverted with other, independently measured parameters. This may lead to the fact that current forecasts about the future climatic crisis may not coincide with the real situation, which in this case becomes more threatening.