It’s pretty amazing to see how enthusiastic climate scientists have been in checking the information in Swindle as compared with their virtually complete acquiescence with Inconvenient Truth. I guess it depends whose ox is being gored. Since we’ve been looking at gridcell issues, I took a look at the temperature graphic in Swindle which has […]
A while ago, I made a couple of posts on CRU adjustments to 19th century SST estimates based on their speculations about the use of canvas and wooden buckets. (While I’ve posted some questions about land temperature records, there is a far more pressing need to wade through SST procedures. My earlier posts were here […]
I discussed the China network in Jones et al 1990 which is still cited as key evidence against UHI having a material effect on temperature estimates (even in IPCC 4AR). Shortly after Jones et al was published, Wang et al. 1990 ( W-C Wang, Z, Zeng and T. Karl, Urban Heat Islands in China, 1990. […]
Last week, I reported on my progress (or rather lack of progress) in identifying the stations used in Jones et al 1990 on urban heat islands. Here’s the next episode.
OK, so I got interested in decoding the binary data sets at ftp://data.giss.nasa.gov/pub/gistemp/download/ as well. Wrote some Perl to slice and dice the data set into various series. I now have fully 1.6Gb less free hard drive space and I cannot figure out where my Sunday went 🙂 I’ll tidy up the various scripts and […]
Some feedback on my request for the sites used in Jones et al 1990 (no data):
I’ve posted up a collection of functions to read from various gridcell and station archives into organized time series objects here. Read functions are included for HadCRUT3, HAdCRUT2, GISS gridded, GHCN v2, GISS station, GSN, meteo.ru, unaami and G02141. I’ll probably add to this from time to time now that I’ve figured out an organization […]
I’ve been going through the process of reconciling gridded data and station data in one Russian gridcell. Most of my effort to date has been spent on creating tools for accessing and collating data archives into organized time series formats so that others don’t have to go through the same trials and tribulations of sorting […]
GISS has a large collection of station data, both adjusted and unadjusted. Unlike many data archives, GISS do not permit you to either extract the entire data set from a single archive or from permanent individual files. You can obtain digital data for individual stations, but you have to go through a laborious process of […]
There is an interesting collection of data from 223 Russian stations here mentioned by both Jerry Brennan and myself. These 223 stations are precisely the same as the 223 stations in CDIAC’s NDP048, conveniently listed here . CDIAC NDP-048 includes an extensive discussion of station history. The versions at meteo.ru typically go to 1995, while […]
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