I was instructed to teach Jeremy, Andrew Weaver's other summer student, how to use the UVic climate model — he had been working
with weather station data for most of the summer, but was interested in Earth system modelling too.
For an example of how that «citizen science» can really work, look at what Ron Broberg and Zeke Hausfeather are doing
with the weather station data — they aren't sitting around declaring that «it can't be done» or that the GISTEMP / CRU / NCDC methods are fixed, they are going into the data, making choices, seeing what impact they have and determining what is robust.
By the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining
with weather station data.
Not exact matches
That
data was combined
with pollution and
weather information collected by 13 air - quality monitoring
stations.
These mobile, radar - equipped
weather stations — along
with weighted probes bearing anemometers, thermometers, and cameras that can be placed in a tornado's path — allow scientist chasers to gather valuable
data on the formation and internal structure of twisters.
For the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC
with its ground
stations and modern
weather satellites provide reliable global
data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapor.
Cowtan's version differs because it compensates for missing
data from areas
with few
weather stations, like the Arctic.
The University of East Anglia,
with the assistance of the U.K. Met Office, is now trying to get countries that had provided
weather station data under confidential agreements to release the information to the public.
EWeLiNE combines these
data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based
weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.
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.
When they compared the isotope predictions
with the
weather -
station data, the measured ratios in northern latitudes tended to be higher than expected, the team reports tomorrow in Nature.
The scientists examined four different versions of the model outputs, each one translated for the region
with data from
weather stations in the Northwest through a process called «downscaling.»
The driver gets real - time traffic information,
data on
weather, filling
stations with fuel prices and free parking spaces.
Arriving
with a five - year complimentary subscription to SiriusXM
Data Services and Travel Link, the Soul EV has access to charging
stations and travel information such as road conditions,
weather and security alerts as well as sports scores, movie times and stock prices through the screen's graphical interface and electronic program guide.
-- SIRIUS Travel Link ™ that when combined
with voice activated navigation will provide users
with a suite of
data services including real - time traffic, coast - to - coast
weather conditions and fuel price information for over 120,000 gas
stations.
Thanks to
data transmitted by manned synoptic and unmanned automatic
weather stations, as well as complex
weather stations built in or close to these destinations, the forecasters have been able to come up
with a
weather outlook specific to a destination.
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.
Projects in the programme include Penthouse 4C, a half - size replica of the Barbican Estate's largest apartment reconstructed in the central foyer, confusing notions of private and public space whilst providing an iconic stage for workshops and performances; Unmoored, a
weather station installed on the roof beaming
data to screens throughout the centre to transform the Barbican into an airship in motion; meanwhile the Barbican's lower level cloakroom will become the Ministry of Measurement whose bureaucratic functionaries will send members of the public scurrying off
with instructions to recover
data from around the centre and bring it back to be filed and processed.
The Netatmo
weather station also has the option to let you share access to the
data with others, either a single time or an ongoing basis, and to share your
data on a
weather map of other users, which might be of interest to those of us that are into
weather data.
Although there are no permanent
weather stations in the Arctic, there is intermittent
data from buoys and and from
weather model reanalyses
with which they could test their method.
Secondly, through the copious use of
station weather data, a number of single
station records
with long term cooling trends are shown.
However, there was one post yesterday featuring a photo of a
weather station positioned near an air - conditioner along
with the
data series from that particular
station showing a jump in temperature.
In the paper1, the authors used
data from
weather stations around the world; those in China «were selected on the basis of
station history: we chose those
with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times», they wrote.
I am upgrading our
weather station along
with a lightning warning and would be happy to add to the accurate keeping of the
data... ed
It is worse now
with fewer
weather stations and less
data than in 1990.
For a couple years I have been pointing out (along
with Judith Curry and others) that the latest fad — which puts a lot of warming in recent
data — is to extend high - latitude land
weather station data far out over the Arctic Ocean.
That what is being done
with climate
weather station data is combining a whole lot of very unequal
data sets.
The idea of gaining climate inferences from the NWS Climatological
Data network is not realistic without a careful examination of each
stations exposure history Thank the fire
weather people for the RAWS network
with little pavement, heated buildings or night - lights in their view shed.
The problem
with most
weather station data is it is not «real time», so pilots rely on what the control tower is telling them.
What do warmers such as Hanson / Giss do, well, they compare
data from a highly UHI contaminated urban city
weather station with CLEAN
data from a neighbouring RURAL
station.
The apparent attempts to cover up problems
with temperature
data from the Chinese
weather stations provide the first link between the email scandal and the UN's embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.
As
with soil
data, the area represented by a given
weather station is also subject to spatial variation due to changes in local topography.
But when, as
with the Antarctica
weather station data we used, there is not only a lot of missing
data and «noise» but also greatly time - varying patterns of missingness (which
stations have
data missing), ridge regression (both mridge and iridge) can be expected to, and does, perform significantly better than TTLS.
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data loggers, temperature profilers, chart recorders, and
data acquisition recorders.
The current methodology of climate
data recording; well I suppose it is really
weather data; doesn't even comply
with the Nyquist Criterion for even the daily average Temperature calculation at a single
station.
NASA is on it's best behavior
with regards to climate
data, since it emerged recently that the agency may have altered
weather station data to falsely indicate warming & sea rises.
The SST
data are a little more complex than the
weather station data with which most of use are familiar: Whereas temperature measurements at
weather stations have been performed according to a standard protocol for over a century, measurement methods for SST
data have changed significantly over the same period.
On my
weather station's reporting, I used to graph the last 24 hours of
data, but switched to 48 hours — that makes it easy and convenient to compare today's
weather with yesterday.
From my perspective, seeing the issue
with weather stations worldwide and the
data they produce, and the high number of airports in GISTEMP, I think UAH is free of those biases.
Their latest cause celebre: New revelations in The Guardian that the director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Center, Phil Jones, may be in hot water over the accusations of scientific fraud having to do
with Chinese
weather station data.
Moreover, as a consistency check, after they subtract the effects now attributed to socioeconomic factors, the
data from the
weather stations become much more compatible
with the satellite
data!
In 2012 PCIC launched its
Data Portal
with the BC
Station Data Page, making
weather observations from more than 6000
stations available to the public.
Data often cited by the anti forces generally turn out to be either statistical extrapolation, or they are using data that has been proven wrong (one weather monitoring station on a balloon was found to be too high in the atmosphere, giving cooler results then expected, same with a monitoring station in the ocean that was too de
Data often cited by the anti forces generally turn out to be either statistical extrapolation, or they are using
data that has been proven wrong (one weather monitoring station on a balloon was found to be too high in the atmosphere, giving cooler results then expected, same with a monitoring station in the ocean that was too de
data that has been proven wrong (one
weather monitoring
station on a balloon was found to be too high in the atmosphere, giving cooler results then expected, same
with a monitoring
station in the ocean that was too deep).
KS2 / 3 science: Use automatic
weather station data together
with the Met Office resources to study the difference between day and night and to look at the seasons.
A
weather station for your school — guidance for setting up a school
weather station: Why you need one; what to buy; where to put it; what to do
with the
data.
''... 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.
Ewert's findings echo that of US meteorologists Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts who examined 6,000 NASA
weather stations and found a host of irregularities both
with the way they were sited and how the raw
data had been adjusted to reflect such influences as the Urban Heat Island effect.
In March 2012, the BoM stated there were 761
weather stations in Australia, 16
with 100 years or more of
data, 184
with 50 or more years, 506
with 30 or more, and 29
with less than five years of
data.
With a large crowd supplying
data, the real conditions of an area start to emerge and that information can be mapped and used to make predictions that can be drilled down to a small area or to provide more accurate
weather forecasts for people living farther away from
weather stations.
I wonder why only five
weather stations out of ~ 6000 were chosen... - gavin] Because in all probability there are only five rural, continental US
stations with data from 1905 to 2003 which can be guaranteed to have not to have suffered changes in building cover, vegetation, irrigation,..