In an unpublished paper, Watts et al. raise new questions about the adjustments applied to the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) station data (which also form part of
the GHCN global dataset).
Not exact matches
An omission in processing a correction algorithm led to some small errors on the
Global Historical Climatology Network - Monthly
dataset (
GHCN - M v3.2.0).
NCDC will not update the static reports from October through December 2012 and the 2012 U.S and
Global annual reports, but will use the current
dataset (
GHCN - M v. 3.2.1 and MLOST v. 3.5.3) for the January 2013 report and other comparisons to previous months and years.
The Inspector General's report states specifically: · «We found no evidence in the CRU emails that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data comprising the [
Global Historical Climatology Network — monthly]
GHCN - M
dataset.»
If we look at the GISS
dataset (I'm using [raw
GHCN + USHCN corrections] at the moment) as a matrix of year - months x stations, how should one go about getting the data into a single
global average annual series, given that there's so many missing values?
The main
dataset is known as the
Global Historical Climatology Network (
GHCN), but a large component of this
dataset is also available as a separate
dataset called the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN).
Shown are data from the
Global Historical Climatology Network (
GHCN)
dataset and output from the two GISS model experiments (SST only in middle panel and SST+D ust in bottom panel).
NCDC is transitioning from its traditional climate divisional
dataset to a new divisional
dataset, known as nClimDiv, which is based on
Global Historical Climatology Network — Daily (
GHCN - D) observations using a 5 - km gridded approach.
The
Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN - Monthly) page within US National Climate Data Centre website provides one of the two US versions of the global dataset and includes raw station
Global Historical Climatology Network (
GHCN - Monthly) page within US National Climate Data Centre website provides one of the two US versions of the
global dataset and includes raw station
global dataset and includes raw station data.
All three of the key mean
global temperature anomaly indices rely on this same NOAA
GHCN dataset, so that NOAA, GISS and HadCRUT.
The
Global Historical Climatology Network (
GHCN) version 3.2.2
dataset was obtained from the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
These
datasets include: NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Sea Surface Temperature - WHOI, Version 1.0 U.S. Monthly Extremes
Global Historical Climatology Network — Monthly (
GHCN - M) Version 3 African Easterly Wave Climatology Version 1 NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Daily Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), Version 1.2 NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Monthly Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), Version 2.2 - 1
Global Surface Summary of the Day — GSOD Monthly Summaries of the
Global Historical Climatology Network — Daily (
GHCN - D) I nternational Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 1 Monthly International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 2 Monthly International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 3 Monthly International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
Global Land Surface Temperature Databank — Stage 1 Daily... Continued
Effective May 2, 2011, the
Global Historical Climatology Network - Monthly (
GHCN - M) version 3
dataset of monthly mean temperature has replaced
GHCN - M version 2 as the
dataset for operational climate monitoring activities.