Until I recently examined the underlying technical literature on the construction of the UAH and RSS satellite data sets, I had little appreciation of the complicated adjustment and estimation procedure involved in the satellite temperature indices. The UAH and RSS satellite temperature indices are constructed from many different satellites (TIROS-N, NOAA-6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,…), each of which has … Continue reading RSS versus UAH: Battles over Tropical Land and Ocean