The actual
Tmax recorded each day is thus subject to some weather effects and some non-weather effects, acting in a way that was not observed and recorded at the time and so lost to us forever.
Not exact matches
I just don't understand how fairly plain heat biases, oil drum trash burners, A / C exhausts, etc., near thermometers are irrelevant to a given site's
recorded Tmax.
If one doesn't properly plot or
record the
TMAX, then the average temp will be wrong.
3) The number of days over the top 10 % of highest
TMax as an anomaly using 19 stations with
records back before 1920.
After the move, the
recorded Tmin's and
Tmax's are different, because the UHI effect is abolished.
In fact, Table 1 shows that for the last month of available parallel measurements the electronic probe (
Tmax - Probe) often
recorded considerably warmer than the mercury thermometer (
Tmax - LIG).
After looking at 100 year long daily
records of Tmin and
Tmax for a bunch of sites, it seemed pretty clear to me that we could do with one measure.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/04/ushcn-surface-temperatures-1973-2012-dramatic-warming-adjustments-noisy-trends/ Since NOAA encourages the use the USHCN station network as the official U.S. climate
record, I have analyzed the average -LSB-(
Tmax + Tmin) / 2] USHCN version 2 dataset in the same way I analyzed the CRUTem3 and International Surface Hourly (ISH) data.
I ask after noticing the highest and lowest on
record in the HadCET
Tmax data.
Most historic data gives us mainly the daily
Tmax and Tmin,
recorded when thermometers designed for the purpose cause maker pegs to stop moving each day when the max or min is reached.
That is the kind of issue I was groping toward from my layman's perspective, that it * might * matter by more than a tenth or two if a temp
record is only (Tmin +
Tmax) / 2
Although manually read, the markers, assuming that they do not move, would provide a relief from the meniscus error in alcohol and mercury types, and, if read at say 9 am, they would have
recorded the previous days
Tmax and the overnight Tmin.
I bet you that the aussie audit group did not apply this WMO - ISO siting standard, considering you have only 954 Tmin
records that are higher than your
Tmax for th same day.
I noticed that NONE of the
Tmax values
recorded during the month were duplicated from one day to the next.
E.g., if you
record the temperature at 4 pm today and it's 100 degrees, then reset the thermometer, then the
Tmax on the thermometer will be automatically still set to 100 degrees.
Recording in afternoons makes for double - counting hot
Tmax, while
recording in mornings makes for double - counting cold Tmins.
The second line of evidence is how stable
Tmax is, it's really flat, most years it's 0.0 something, the
Tmax average of 119 million
records for the world is 0.00193, so
Tmax is flat, Tmin however flutters around, it's not flat and the changes are regional, they don't happen at the same time in different places, like the ocean SST's change, and the downwind surfaces detect it.
historically
Tmax and Tmin were
recorded.
When that is done the accurate
Tmax and Tmin are
recorded for the proper day and there is no step change that requires TOBs adjustment.