New data on Global Warming - the AIRS satellite instrument
From the excellent
Watts Up With That?:
A encouraging response on satellite CO2 measurement from the AIRS Team
Recently we’ve been discussing products from the AIRS satellite instrument (Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder) onboard the Aqua satellite. There has been quite a bit of interest in this because unlike the satellite temperature record that goes back to 1979, until now we have not had a complementary satellite derived CO2 record. We are about to have one, and much more.
I wrote to the AIRS team to inquire about when the satellite data on CO2, and other relevant products might be made public. All that has been released so far are occasional snippets of data and imagery, such as the short slide show above.
Here is the response I got from them:
And the interesting paragraph in this response -- the money quote:
Since our results are at variance with what is commonly accepted by the scientific community, we must work especially hard to validate them. We have just had a paper accepted by Geophysical Research Letters that will be published in 6-8 weeks, and are preparing a validation paper.
Anthony shows some of the raw data and provides correlation with other similar data sources and they track very nicely.
This should be an interesting paper to read as it shows quite a different atmospheric CO2 model as is presented by the AGW advocates...
Posted by DaveH at July 31, 2008 4:23 PM
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