This database was derived
from weather station records in 23 locations in and near the state.
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS) is one of the five groups that currently publish global temperature trend estimates
from weather station records, i.e., they produce one of the curves we showed you at the start of this essay in Figure 1.
The main basis for the claim that there has been «unusual» global warming since the Industrial Revolution arises from the various global temperature estimates constructed
from weather station records.
The main basis for the claim that there has been «unusual» global warming since the late 19th century is that the global temperature estimates constructed
from weather station records suggest a warming trend of about 0.8 - 1.0 °C since about 1880.
Surely, there's got to be some other global warming indicator that shows a long - term global warming trend...» Remarkably, aside
from the weather station record estimates, almost all of the so - called «global warming indicators» are short - term estimates...
Not exact matches
With Denniston and Gonzales, Villarini examined historical rainfall
records from a
weather station near the cave.
Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data
recorded from satellite and
weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming
from greenhouse gases, with another set
recorded at ground level by 1,982
weather stations across the continent.
Figure 3: The ratio of
record daily temperature highs to
record daily lows observed at about 1,800
weather stations in the 48 contiguous United States
from January 1950 through September 2009.
In conjunction with the exhibition Featured Artist Project: SP
Weather Reports (2008 - 2013) on view
from January 17 — March 29, we are pleased to announce the publication of Six Years of
Weather, which compiles tables of all
weather data
recorded at the SPWS
station base in Long Island City since the project began.
In this case, they have the long
records from the
weather stations, and the relationship of the wider temperatures to those
stations over the satellite period, and this is what you get when you put that together.
My own analysis for my neck - of - the - woods (slightly less definite due to the data
from the local
weather station having stalled in May 2013 — probably due to spending cuts)-- February saw
record rainfall, 38 % above the previous 55 - year February maximum and 3.35 sd above the February mean.
By taking the time to download and analyze, and summarize annual average temperature
records from hundreds of
weather reporting
stations,
from the US, Canada, England, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Is it compiled
from weather stations or shipping
records such as those maintained by Lloyds?
So, this has led many people to conclude that the «unusual» global warming implied by the
weather station records is man - made global warming
from our fossil fuel usage.
Aside
from the problems urban heat islands can cause for city - dwellers, they also create an insidious problem for researchers who want to use
weather station records to estimate global temperature trends.
Weather records from 11 individual
weather station were also correlated with annual balance, but each yielded lower correlation coefficients than the Cascade Mountain Division
record, probably due to the significant local changes in precipitation for many storm events.
However, the pre-1900 and post-1900 Seven
Station series have similar results and all following data on this page is based on temperatures in the original Seven
Station series including pre-1900
recordings from the four oldest
weather stations.
«The beauty of lake sediments is that they're being deposited continuously right up until yesterday,» Briner said, «so by looking at them, we get clues into past climates, which we can then overlap with
records from weather stations, which only cover the past 50 to 75 years.»
However, there are only 50 states, and this is a number that isn't large enough to give the best statistical results... [a better metric is a] year - by - year numbers of daily all - time
record high temperatures
from a set of 970
weather stations with at least 80 years of
record... There are 365 opportunities in each year (366 in leap years) for each of the 970
stations to set a
record high... Note the several years above 6000 events prior to 1940 and none above 5000 since 1954.
In total, the audited Seven
Station dataset includes 347,261 minimum and maximum Fahrenheit temperatures
recorded at 25
weather stations before July 1971 and 289,014 minimum and maximum Celsius temperatures
recorded at all
stations from 1 July 1971 to 31 December 2011, totalling 636,275
recordings.
So, when the automatic
weather station which now operates in the town of Goulburn (not far
from Canberra),
recorded a measurement of minus -LSB-...]
The sudden change in minimum temperature differences between Perth Metro and Perth Airport
from 1997 can be seen in average annual minima
recorded at both
weather stations.
We will analyze synoptic - scale
weather patterns
from global reanalysis models over the past 50 years, utilizing a variety of techniques including self - organizing maps, such that these
weather patterns can be tied to variations in core proxies, as well as relate this to ten years (2003 - 2013) of
records from about a dozen automated
weather stations located on and near McCall Glacier.
The author presents volumes of data
from actual
weather station records that show average temperatures declining over recent decades in many places.
The GISS team measured temperatures using
records from land - based
weather stations, and ship and satellite measurements of sea - surface temperature.
Sourced
from The Climate of Western Australia 1876 - 1899 by Government Astronomer W. Ernest Cooke, below are monthly average maximum and minimum temperature comparions between Perth's first official
weather recording station and the Perth Metro 9225
station at Mt Lawley.
These indices are also calculated
from weather station observations
recorded at 22 locations within southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to evaluate the performance of both the 10 - km and 800 - m datasets in replicating the observed quantities.
Perhaps the sub-decadal escalator steps we see like the ones http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:101/mean:103/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:29/mean:31/plot/hadcrut4gl/
from:1979/to:1988/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/
from:1987.5/to:1995.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/
from:1996.5/to:2001.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/
from:2003/to:2008/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:72/trend
from ’79 to» 88, ’87 to» 95, ’96 to» 01, ’03 to ’08 and in the last six years all forming part of the longest and sharpest sustained rising global interpolated surface
weather station temperature rise on
record tell us not to be overly interested in a short - term variation in what is, after all, much less measured and much more difficult to measure?
While the De Bilt
weather station near Utrecht
recorded a high of «only» 95 ° F (35 ° C), 6 1,000 to 1,400 more people died
from the heat than in an average summer, and the two - week stretch of extreme heat in August claimed 400 to 500 lives.6
Logic also says if numerous
weather reporting
stations from the former Soviet block are no longer reporting the previous
records ought be removed.
From January through December, the 4,451 U.S.
weather stations that have been tracking temperatures for at least 30 years measured nearly 31,000 high - temperature
records but only 5,900 lows.
Long - term, independent
records from weather stations, satellites, ocean buoys, tide gauges, and many other data sources all confirm that our nation, like the rest of the world, is warming.
Fortunately, there are several
weather stations from the Arctic region whose
records stretch back further.
How can this review possibly conclude that there are no problems with the other 693 automatic
weather stations — and there has been no impact on official temperature
records from the limits it now acknowledges were placed on
recordings from Thredbo and Goulburn?
Dr. Marohasy — At the end of this post you comment that the last 20 years of
recordings from Australian automatic
weather stations may not be «fit to purpose.»
FWIW, it should be quite easy to design and set up a temporary gadget with a small micro-processor, a digital camera (or other optical sensor) with some simple software, and a 4G modem to simply register,
record and transmit the temperature (as indicated by the height of the liquid in an LiG thermometer)
from a few actual
weather stations to a database.
In summary, given the Bureau is taking one - second extrema, rather than following its own published guidelines (Instruments and Observing Methods Report No. 65, WMO / TD No. 862)
recordings taken by the Bureau over the last twenty years
from automatic
weather stations across Australia may not be fit for purpose.
See, the first thing to do is do determine what the temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what patterns or trends represent «data» in those trends (what the earth's temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random changes in the «
weather» that do NOT represent «climate change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR data, «metadata» «M» (minus)
records getting skipped that inflate winter temperatures, differences in sea
records from different measuring techniques, sea
records vice land
records, extrapolated land
records over hundreds of km, surface temperature errors
from lousy
stations and lousy maintenance of surface
records and
stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias changes in the information.)
Perhaps all the temperature readings I remember were solely TV -
station - gathered readings not part of the official
record, but I thought those were using input
from the official
weather stations just as they are now (just gathered by phone or dial - up internet instead of modern near - real - time monitoring).
And years of painstaking temperature measurements
from thousands of
weather station records, have confirmed a slow inexorable rise in that overall temperature across the globe.
Temperature
records from around the world —
from weather stations in both urban and rural areas, and
from weather balloons and satellites — tell us the world is warming.
Global temperatures vary
from year to year and place to place, but
weather stations and satellite data provide accurate
records.
We have found that we can reasonably calculate mass balance
from climate
records for the mean of all the glaciers, but not for individual glaciers., with input
from Snotel sites and Diablo Dam
weather station.
El Azizia took the
record for highest temperature ever
recorded on Sept. 13, 1922, when a thermometer on a
weather station hit a whopping 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), thanks to southerly winds blowing in hot air
from over the Sahara Desert.
Homogenisation refers to the method of adjusting temperature
records to remove artificial biases, such as the impact of a
weather station moving
from one location to another.
Temperature data were the focus of the so - called 2009 Climategate controversy, in which opponents of greenhouse gas regulation alleged that leaked emails
from a British climate laboratory showed manipulation of
weather station records.
Temperature data
from tens of thousands of
weather stations across the globe, many of which have incomplete
records, are «very contentious,» Muller said in an interview.
The NOAA surface
record, on the other hand, are what is known as composite
records, which takes temperature information
from a variety of sources — surface
weather stations, satellites, ocean buoys and more — and combines them.
UAH
from their satellite data are suggesting that this is a more accurate
record than the global temperature
records because of UHI not being properly allowed for in urban
weather stations records (supported by NASA 3 yr research on UHI).