intercalibration

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ calibration

Noun

intercalibration (plural intercalibrations)

1. 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 $R_{A}$ and $R_{B}$ ($r_{AB}$ > 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 $r_{AB}$).