Minimum Night Temperature.
Towns surveyed for mean
minimum night temperatures by the Government Astronomer that are included in the Bureau of Meteorology's quality control sites include Albany (11.4 C), Broome (20.1 C), Cape Leeuwin (14 C), Carnarvon (16 C), Derby (21 C), Esperance (11.3 C), Geraldton (13.9 C), Kalgoorlie (12.2 C), Katanning (8.4 C), Perth (12.3 C), Rottnest (13.3 C), Southern Cross (10.2 C) and York (11 C).
Not exact matches
Based on my understanding, it would be correct to say that the effect of doubling CO2 while there is no sunlight is for the
temperature drop during the
night to be slower — meaning, the
minimum and average
temperature will be higher than it would have been otherwise.
Trend from 1961 - 1990 in the Karl - Knight heat wave index, which tracks the warmest average
minimum temperature over three consecutive
nights in a year.
Meals: breakfast Maximum Altitude: 2450 meters
Minimum Altitude: 2050 meters
Temperature during day: 15ºC - 27ºC
Temperature during
night: 10ºC — 15ºC Hiking Distance: 4 km approx.
Maximum Altitude: 4700 meters
Minimum Altitude: 3750 meters
Temperature during day: 10ºC - 20ºC
Temperature during
night: 2ºC — 9ºC Hiking Distance: 17 km approx.
Daily maximum
temperatures are rising, as are
minimum temperatures, except for cooler
nights in autumn in the southwest of SEA closely related to lower rainfall.
If GHG levels do not change from day to
night, maximum and
minimum temperatures will not change, except in relation to insolation changes as the Earth follows its elliptical orbit around the Sun, etc..
Minimum night - time
temperatures, on the other hand, are more affected by greenhouse gases and therefore should not be affected by aerosols.
It is we11 known that
temperatures, especially the
night minimum, are a little higher near the centre of a large town than they are in the surrounding country districts; if, therefore, a large number of buildings have accumulated in the vicinity of a station during the period under consideration, the departures at that station would be influenced thereby and a rising trend would be expected.
The
minimum temperatures of all treatments were kept at 15 °C because «
night - time
temperatures over the last 50 years in the large majority of wheat - growing regions across Australia have not shown an increasing
temperature trend in all seasons.»
Diurnally, there is a change in the steady state as
minimum night - time
temperatures are rising more rapidly than maximum day - time
temperatures.
For those unfamiliar with boundary layer meteorology, the reason for this is that
minimum temperatures on calm
nights should in fact show a larger warming trend than on windy
nights (explained below), and not the identical trends reported by Parker.
If we then assume that nearly all of any urban effect will be concentrated in the calm
nights, which were defined as the calmest third of
nights, then overall urbanisation trends of about 0.03 deg C per decade (a bit more than a third of 0.078 deg C per decade) in
minimum temperature should be readily detectable.
· On average, between 1950 and 1993,
night - time daily
minimum air
temperatures over land increased by about 0.2 °C per decade.
Weather stations near cities and airports where the pavement holds the heat into the
night and waste heat abounds, those stations consistently exhibited higher
minimum temperatures than nearby rural areas.13
More than one - half of the stations showed a significant positive relationship at the daily time scale between warm
nights (daily
minimum temperature greater than the 90th percentile) or warm days (daily maximum
temperature above the 90th percentile) and heavy - precipitation events (daily precipitation exceeding the 75th percentile), with the greater frequencies found for the east and southwest coasts during autumn and winter.
The historical record of
temperatures indicates that the
minimum night time
temperatures are increasing at a faster rate than the maximum daytime
temperatures.
I believe it will for the most part lead to a rise in
minimum temperatures, as the CO2 - effect will also be working thorugh the
night.
With development comes the normal daytime heat retention that is then released during
night time hours, this increasing surrounding daily
minimum temperatures.
Actually, the steady rise in
minimum temperatures in Yosemite and Death Valley is indicative of greenhouse gas - induced global warming — more «insulation» to prevent cooling at
night.
The study found that the
minimum temperature as recorded at
night by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) at the airport was significantly lower than the
temperatures measured within the houses.
You also have to bear in mind that UHI isn't just about having the potential to artificially raise maximum
temperatures, but more significant is the effect it has on reducing the extremes of
night time
minimums; sun - warmed asphalt / concrete, radiation from warm buildings and warm air from AC vents are the key to the UHI effect.
There is also a decrease in diurnal
temperature range (DTR) since the
night - time
temperature minima warm faster than the daytime maxima in many locations (e.g., Dai et al., 2001).
My current best guess is that the higher CO2 since then has caused greater warming at
night (which is corroborated by
minimum temperature trends, since
minimum temperatures usually occur at
night).
Local effects at
night due to site relocation are quite variable, usually negative, with a few having ASOS
minimum temperatures more than 1 °F cooler than the previous location even though the location change was less than one mile horizontally and 100 feet vertically..
This would have a local effect - raising
minimum temperatures, and perhaps a global effect, the local area with wind turbines should more efficiently radiate thermal energy from the lower atmosphere into space (by advecting atmosheric heat to the ground surface at
night, where it can be radiated away).
I live downwind of topography which in interaction with the wind mixes warmer air aloft downwards at
night, and my summer
minimum temperatures are often 10F warmer than nearby locations.
As the
temperature drops at
night, the atmosphere returns some of the energy it stored during the day so that the
minimum temperature is only slightly below the maximum.
In a worldwide set of about 270 stations, Parker (2004, 2006) noted that warming trends in
night minimum temperatures over the period 1950 to 2000 were not enhanced on calm
nights, which would be the time most likely to be affected by urban warming.
South Korea had its hottest summer
nights and second hottest summer days since 1954 with summer mean daily
minimum temperatures 2.2 ℃ warmer than the 1971 - 2000 climatology and the daily maximum
temperatures 1.9 ℃ warmer.
It is well known that
temperatures, especially the
night minimum, are a little higher near the centre of a large town than they are in the surrounding country districts; if, therefore, a large number of buildings have accumulated in the vicinity of a station during the period under consideration, the departures at that station would be influenced thereby and a rising trend would be expected.
In the lower right graph, hot
nights are defined as
nights with a
minimum temperature higher than 98 % of the
minimum temperatures between 1971 and 2000.»