Degree days are the result of multiplying the time that a place is outside a comfortable range of temperature by the number of degrees it has strayed from that range.
But it is impossible to say, without running the whole exercise afresh, what the properly calculated range of projections for temperature changes would be.
Metop's suite of instruments retrieve a range of data - from the temperature and water content of the different layers in the atmosphere to the speed of the winds whipping across the ocean, and from the health of the ozone layer to the spread of volcanic ash plumes across the sky.
This latest research, including the decade of stalled temperature rises, produces a range of 0.9-5.0C.
The current estimates are produced by analyzing a range of variables like rainfall, temperature and evaporation.
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The degree of stripping depended on a range of factors, including the volatility of the chemical, the temperature of the water and the surface area available for transfer.
Moreover, such a laser can be fine-tuned over a smaller range of wavelengths simply by varying its temperature.
Here, the captain has to shower them with love, attention and a temperature in the range of four and eight degrees.
Global mean temperature varied within a range of one degree Celsius during the Holocene.
Scientists subject the temperature deviations to a range of statistical analyses, which can then be matched against theoretical expectations.
In a specially built workshop, protein solutions are exposed to every conceivable range of conditions varying in such things as the acidity, salt concentration and temperature of the solution to persuade them to crystallise.
As a result, electronic computers behave erratically when operated outside their recommended (and usually narrow) temperature range, or in the presence of strong radiation.
But keeping the temperature rise below 2C will mean adopting a wide range of measures - as the committee puts it, there is "no magic bullet".
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This 100-nanometer membrane, comprising the electrolyte and electrodes, has to be thin enough to allow ions to pass through it at a relatively low temperature (which, for ceramic fuel cells, lies in the range of 300 to 500 degrees Celsius).
And because the gate and the insulation layer are formed right at the end of the chip-making process, after the high-temperature steps have been completed, it is possible to choose from a wider range of materials for the insulation layer.
They developed a climate computer model for the archipelago that was based on a mid-range temperature projection being used for a big upcoming UN global-climate report - the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
It contains a device that measures such things as temperature, motion and light intensity, and it sports a miniature antenna and a radio with a range of 10 to 50 meters.
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