intercalibration
English
editEtymology
editFrom inter- + calibration.
Noun
editintercalibration (plural intercalibrations)
- The act of intercalibrating
- 2015, M. Lockwood, M.J Owens, L. Barnard, I.G. Usoskin, “Tests of sunspot number sequences: 3. Effects of regression procedures on the calibration of historic sunspot data”, in arXiv[1]:
- It is found that a very high correlation between and ( > 0.98) does not prevent large errors in the intercalibration (e.g. sunspot maximum values can be over 30% too large even for such levels of ).