Since there is a solar radiant bias for CRS and most MMTS,
the Daily Tmax is more closely related to local solar max.
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.
Not exact matches
Is R calculated on
daily, monthly, annual data, smoothed or not, homogenous or hetrogeneous, Tmean,
Tmax or Tmin?
My sense is that UHI has a much bigger effect on Tmin than
Tmax — such that my son and I found a 10 degree F UHI in Phoenix in the evening, but I am not sure if we could find one, or as large of one, at the
daily maximum.
Since 1950, it has been found that the global diurnal temperature range (DTR), the difference between the minimum temperature (Tmin) and the maximum temperature (
Tmax) of
daily surface air temperature, has been temporally decreasing in several places all over the world.
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.
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.
I downloaded all the the
daily TMin /
TMax / TMean for all 1300 stations from 1900 to 2009.
Cape Leeuwin, SW tip of West Australia, has 99 % complete
daily surface
Tmax and Tmin starting 1907, station number Australia 9518.
In addition, the header describes the type of data represented in the current file set, e.g.
TMAX / TMIN / TAVG and Monthly /
Daily.
The Uncertainty Monster is birthed right here, in the random and systematic errors and imprecision of the
daily Tmin and
Tmax readings.
But is temperature uncertainty reported as if it derives from the average anomaly and not derived from the measured
daily Tmin and
Tmax?
Correct me if I'm wrong: your charts show the yearly average value of
daily changes in
Tmax or Tmin at land stations only.