Not exact matches
USHCN claims to adjust out
UHI effects, but
looking at the adjusted data
for Arizona it does not seem credible that they
are doing an adequate job.
-- The whole purpose of Parker's technique
is to get a
look at the
UHI effect as it
is normally defined:
for example, see the papers by Hinkel et al. on their studies of Barrow, Alaska.
On further thinking I judged that one should
be able to determine whether a
UHI effect can
be detected under calm and windy conditions by
looking at major US cities
for the summer months (Parker claims that summer conditions should enhance the
UHI effects and thus the resulting calm / windy
effects on Tmin) and plotting the daily changes in average wind velocity versus the change in Tmin and the change Tmax - Tmin.
Accordingly,
for assistance in Australian work, I have
been assisting
for some months with data entry on a large scale
for a new project
looking at
UHI effects.
If you
are looking for validation of the
UHI effects identified by M&N there
are much more direct experimental ways to do it.