On Feb 20, 2008, I wrote a post reviewing the provenance of various versions of an individual USHCN station (Lampasas), observing that a much more recent version was available at NOAA than at CDIAC) (the source used by NASA. I made the following recommendation: Regardless of whether these station histories “matter”, surely there’s no harm […]
A theme in many recent posts has been whether the USHCN and NASA adjustments are successful in achieving their goals. On a number of occasions, we’ve observed that the USHCN station history (SHAP) adjustment appears to be an odd statistical procedure and can be objectively seen to be unsuccessful in picking up recorded station moves. […]
Over the last few days, I’ve shown that Hansen et al 1999 illustrated and discussed the effect of the NASA adjustment for two stations (Phoenix, Tokyo) where the NASA urban adjustment yielded the expected adjustment (denoted in these posts as a “positive” adjustment). In an earlier post, I’d observed that negative urban adjustments (i.e. for […]
A few days ago, I commented on the surprisingly large negative urban adjustments made by NASA at several Peruvian stations. I’ve now calculated the maximum negative and maximum positive urban adjustments at all NASA stations – something that I was able to do only because of my scraping of NASA data from their website (something […]
In my discussion of Peruvian stations, I noted several examples of negative urban adjustments. A couple of readers inquired as to whether there were any examples of the opposite effect. In fact, Hansen et al 1999, the primary reference for the present-day GISS adjustment methodology provides using two such examples (the only ones discussed): Phoenix […]
There’s no post-1988 data for Cobija or Rurrenabaque. Thus spaketh Tamino, a pseudonymous climate blogger who occasionally takes the time to hurl invective at Climate Audit. As so often in matters climate, I casually wondered how Tamino knew this. My puzzlement grew by merely googling “cobija weather”. To my enormous surprise, there were a number […]
Hansen’s downward adjustments of Peruvian temperature records by as much as 3 deg C is based on the presumptive quality of Peruvian “rural” sites. If one even spends 40 minutes examining the locations of these sites, any resemblance to rural USHCN sites disappears. In addition, the failure of NOAA and NASA to update their records […]
We have talked about finding Waldo for a while. Here are a few interesting graphics showing the Adjusters in Peru. Here are 4 stations where temperatures in the mid-20th century have been lowered by around 3 deg C. These are all reverse UHI effects. For all of the above graphics, I’ve plotted original monthly data […]
As an exercise, I’ve plotted the locations of the GISS Code 1 stations in the US, color coded them to show the ones that end early and then examined the Code 1 stations in California where there is a combination of both a strong GISS trend anomaly and station survey completion.
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