surfacestations.org is back online and there are some good improvements in layout. In the page directory for each state, there are now thumbnails for the stations with information. New stations are coming in all the time. Today’s tide brought in another interesting Washington site from Gary Kobes – Long Beach WA (454748; 72791002). Its physical […]
Russ Steele, who’s been working closely with Anthony Watts and who also deserves much credit for this recent initiative, reports on Ukiah CA at his blog here Ukiah is in the same gridcell as Petaluma. Russ shows a picture of the weather station which is on grass – there’s a tree nearby, but no incinerators, […]
Check out Petaluma CA at Anthony Watts’ blog. Anthony has shown the GISS unadjusted temperature graphic. In this case, the GISS raw data appears to be mostly the same as USHCN adjusted (filnet) up to different rounding; a few isolated values available in USHCN are missing in GISS raw for some strange reason. I’m starting […]
Here are 6 graphics showing contours plots of USHCN A) 1900-2006 trends for 1) raw 2) tobs 3) adjusted; followed by the same plots for B) 1948-2006 (same start as Parker) 1, 2 , 3 as before. The top 20 are shown for each case here. (Case A2 is missing because I forgot to save […]
Fresno Airport is one of the sites in the Parker 2006 network that is used to argue that there is a negligible UHI component in temperature increases in the major indexes. Here is a picture of this rustic location (which is still on the surfacestations.org to do list): Parker has a figure showing results for […]
Did Jones et al 1990 “fabricate” its quality control claims? This hard-hitting question is asked by Doug Keenan here. He cites the following claims from Jones et al 1990 and Wang et al: The stations were selected on the basis of station history: we chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or […]
Mike Nifong, the prosecutor of the Duke lacrosse scandal, is in the news for being disbarred for his handling of the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse team. This illustrates the difference in how concealment of material information is treated in most walks of life and the failure of the IPCC to see any moral dilemma […]
I recently received a copy of how IPCC authors answered the review comments, including their answers to the requirement of one reviewer that the deleted Briffa data be restored (and an explanation given for the inconvenient bits.) You may recall the observation of one reader in the discussion of Swindle, the reader observing: If a […]
Today I want to talk about a terrific 1985 article Godowitch et al,, 1985. Evolution of the Nocturnal Inversion Layer at an urban and nonurban location, J Clim Appl Met 791 ff available online here, which helps put some of the UHI discussions in a more complete perspective. Instead of just considering UHI from a […]
Anthony Watts writes: The picture above comes to me courtesy of Gary Kobes, of the US Coast Guard. It is the temperature sensor at the climate station of record in Aberdeen, WA It is located at the sewage treatment plant. Note the sign on the support post. Note also the temperature shelter plates are clogged […]
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