Every second counts in environmental monitoring, yet the clocks behind the sensors that watch our air are far less reliable than we might like to believe. When an automatic monitoring station records a measurement, it stamps that reading with a time. If that timestamp is wrong, the data itself is not lost but displaced, sliding along the timeline so that a temperature recorded at noon may appear in the record as if it belonged to midnight. A new…
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