The two that come to mind related to the «blacktop»
effect on weather station reporting (higher ground temperatures in the immediate vicinity of urban weather stations that were only at or immediately near ground level due to urban development) and problems with ocean surface temperature measuring methods.
Not exact matches
During inclement
weather, a list of snow emergency plans in
effect can be found
on www.chart.state.md.us as well as most local radio and television
stations.
Therefore the issue is not that
on average it is hotter in the middle of the city or the suburb or the airport, but rather whether the environment of the
weather station has changed significantly in such a way as to
effect the anomoly.
The
weather station is rather close to the cooling
effects of the golf course, but the typical breeze from the south through the
weather station area skirts by the golf course
on the east side.
Some of the temperature increases shown by Dr Jones in fact are caused by temperature recording
stations that were once in rural locations
on the outskirts of cities now being affected by the Urban Heat Island
effect as urban development surrounded the
weather stations.
How do you respond to claims that your 1990 Nature paper was flawed, misleading and even fraudulent — because it did not take proper account of the urban heat island
effect on Chinese
weather stations?
While that heat can raise temperatures recorded by thermometers at surface
weather stations, the
effect on the atmosphere is so local and so shallow that it dissipates before it can heat the deep atmosphere above it.