{"id":727256,"date":"2022-06-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727256"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:00:00","slug":"land-surface-temperature-1995-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727256","title":{"rendered":"Land-surface temperature 1995-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Land-surface_temperature_1995-2020_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Land-surface temperature measurements are crucial for tracking changes in the climate while also helping to monitor heat stress in crops and urban environments.<\/p>\n<p>By describing the skin temperature across Earth\u2019s land surfaces, such as bare ground, vegetation, snow and ice, land-surface temperature data complement the near-surface air temperature records used to track global warming.<\/p>\n<p>This animation shows changes in global land-surface temperature from 1995-2020 developed via <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.esa.int\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ESA\u2019s Climate Change Initiative<\/u>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the first climate record of land-surface temperature that uses both infrared and microwave sensors at a global scale. This greatly improves scientists\u2019 ability to monitor climate change, including polar regions where climate change is happening very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/06\/Land-surface_temperature_1995-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Land-surface temperature 1995-2020<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land-surface temperature measurements are crucial for tracking changes in the climate while also helping to monitor heat stress in crops and urban environments. By describing the skin temperature across Earth\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727257,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/727257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}