Using surface measurements of maximum and minimum temperatures from the Global Daily
Climatological Network data set, we find evidence of a weekly cycle in diurnal temperature range (DTR) for many stations in the United States, Mexico, Japan, and China.
Using daily station - based precipitation records from the United States Historical
Climatological Network for the years 1979 - 2008, it is found that there are two distinct sub-regions.
A subset of the 7,000 or so co-op stations are part of the U.S. Historical
Climatological Network (USHCN), and are used to create the official estimate of U.S. temperatures.
In 2007, Watts founded SurfaceStations.org, to collect information on weather stations that are part of the United States Historical
Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical
Climatological Network (GHCN).
The SurfaceStations project was a crowd sourcing project started in June 2007, done entirely with citizen volunteers (over 650), created in response to the realization that very little physical site survey metadata exists for the entire United States Historical
Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical
Climatological Network (GHCN) surface station records worldwide.
Other major global land temperature reconstructions by NASA, NOAA, and the Hadley Center largely rely on the same set of monthly data from about 7,000 stations that comprise the Global Historical
Climatological Network (GHCN - M).
Further, where is a reference to Dr. Watts work on the quality of the climate monitoring stations that are part of the US Historical
Climatological Network (USHCN)?
Carbon Brief produced a raw global temperature record using using unadjusted ICOADS sea surface temperature measurements gridded by the UK Hadley Centre and raw land temperature measurements assembled by NOAA in version 4 of the Global Historical
Climatological Network (GHCN).
[3] Surfacestations.org describes itself as a «grass roots organization» that uses volunteers to collect information on weather stations that are part of the United States Historical
Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical
Climatological Network (GHCN).
They include lack of adequate spatial sampling to leave instrumental noise as the major term, transcription errors which may be avoided with modern automation and inhomogeneities which dedicated
climatological networks in some parts of the world have made strides in overcoming.
Not exact matches
That needs a real
climatological station
network, rather than making do with the meteorological
network.
Creating a worldwide well sampled
climatological station
network could (in preliminary calculations) improve precision by a factor of three over current capabilities.
The idea of gaining climate inferences from the NWS
Climatological Data
network is not realistic without a careful examination of each stations exposure history Thank the fire weather people for the RAWS
network with little pavement, heated buildings or night - lights in their view shed.
They found that variants of PCA applied to NOAMER tree - ring
network had minimal impact on the final reconstruction, as long as the common
climatological information in the proxy set was retained.
The
Climatological Observers Link was founded in 1970 by a small group of amateur meteorologists and is the enthusiasts» weather observer
network for the United Kingdom.
These datasets include: Quality Controlled Local
Climatological Data (QCLCD) Publication U.S. Hourly Climate Normals (1981 - 2010) U.S. Daily Climate Normals (1981 - 2010) U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1981 - 2010) U.S. Annual / Seasonal Climate Normals (1981 - 2010) NCDC Storm Events Database Annual
Climatological Summaries NOAA's Climate Divisional Database U.S. Climate Reference
Network (USCRN) Hourly Products U.S. Climate Reference
Network (USCRN) Daily Products... Continued