So in any year
the average number of stations is... say 220.
Okay, so we are looking
an average number of stations, with a distribution.
Table 7.2 presents
the average number of stations which aired the network religious programs during the 1970s.
Not exact matches
Since that high - water mark, the
number of stations declined an
average of 2 % annually.
The Leaf's 2013 EPA
numbers are not out yet, but its electric range can exceed 80 miles which studies show is more than enough for the
average American's daily driving needs, but it's incapable
of long - range driving without charging
stations accessible, and extended layover time.
In my experimentation with techniques to «showcase» the robustness
of the global -
average temperature results, I found that it is also important to show the actual
number of stations reporting data for each year.
Global
averaging of stations has also not been compensated for dropouts which have reduced the total
number of reporting
stations dranatically since 1989.
Annan suggests it can, in a way that is somewhat analogous to the
number of surface
stations increasing the accuracy
of our estimation
of the global
average temperature and its trendline.
Only 908
stations used for the October 2008 GISS analysis whereas some 40 yerars ago there were double the
number of stations used to derive an
average global temperature.
This graph is showing the
average temperatures observed vs the
number of reporting
stations.
Burn days: The
number of days the
station could continue to operate by burning coal already on hand assuming no additional deliveries
of coal and an
average consumption rate.
This is quite different from model projections
of globally
averaged anomalies from a very large
number of stations.
There are a
number of papers by Samuel S. Shen looking at the design
of observing networks for estimating spherical harmonics with idealised surface temperature distributions, but I'm not aware
of the technique having been used to reconstruct global
average temperature using the real distribution
of stations and data.
Let's suppose this position is correct, but when creating the global
average I cut the percentage
of rural
stations in the measurement network from 75 % to 25 % (sorry don't know the real
numbers).
So although the
number of northerly
stations was cut in the 80s / 90s, it doesn't introduce a warm bias, because
of the way the
averaging of stations is done by the climatologists who do actually know about these things.
Below is a table
of countries showing the
number of stations used in this study along with the
average, max, and min annual change in temperatures.
It can be shown that CO2 levels over the period 1982 — 2007 at all
stations (up to a modern
number of 9
stations)
averaged 0.480 ± 0.065 % below the global
average (errors at the ± one standard deviation level).
Thus your plots
of number of stations are compelling, but the plots
of average temperature are a let - down.
Is the
average US surface temperature calculated by adding up all the readings and then divided by the
number of stations used?
At least Zeke Hausfather mentioned that the larger
number of stations is used for homogenization, rather than your obscurantist tack
of implying they are included in the
average.
The small
number of weather
stations in the region with complete records since 1979 also indicates predominantly below -
average temperatures over the past year.
''... authors obtained meteorological data from weather
stations situated in eight
of the provincial capitals that covered the period 1980 - 1998, while they obtained contemporary mortality data from the country's National Institute for Statistics for deaths associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive system diseases... Various analyses
of the monthly -
averaged data revealed a
number of interesting results.
The
number of stations used to generate the anomaly
averages is rather small, especially the CRN = 1 group.
As per GISTEMP and due to the low
number of stations, I used a 1000 km radius for
averaging the grid temperatures (with the weight
of each
station declining to 0 at 1000 km).