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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
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From the link.
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Understanding land-atmosphere interactions in extremely hot environment offers insights on how such interactions will change in a warmer world. For this reason, scientists from a wide range of fields, including hydrology, meteorology, ecology and geology, have been interested in identifying the hottest places on Earth. A study back in 2006 based on the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) land surface temperature (LST) data identified the Lut Desert in Iran as the ``thermal pole of the Earth.'' Since then, Lut Desert has been regarded as the hottest place on Earth with the record temperature of 70.7 °C observed in 2005. Using the latest MODIS-derived LST collection 6 which offers an improved LST estimates with a high spatial resolution (1 km), we investigate the hottest temperatures, as well as its diurnal variability in Lut Desert. The results show that Lut Desert is much hotter than previously thought with a record LST of 80.83 °C in 2018 (approximately 10 °C higher than previously reported LST) mainly due to improvements in the new LST estimations from space, and use of higher spatial resolution of the data. Further, our results show that Lut Desert has an incredible diurnal variability range, up to around 71 °C depending on the season.
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Apple’s to oranges.
Sorta like using a 100x microscope to look at a slide of pond water and it’s inhabitants. Then using a 1000x microscope and claiming that you found many more unknown inhabitants when they were there all along.
Not only that, but they’re estimates to boot. Not long ago they needed to redact and adjust temperatures from the LST satellites because the algorithm used was incorrect. (and still may be)
What’s needed is a verification from a terrestrial station in the same location.
But that’s not happening and probably won’t happen. That way there’s no conflicting data...
What’s needed is long term study.
Long term...
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