What does it mean to "smooth" graphed values? Why do climate scientists "smooth" temperature data?
What will be an ideal response?
Smoothing is a process of averaging together adjacent values on a graph. Smoothing makes it easier to see long-term trends within data that fluctuate over large ranges on short-term time scales.
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