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Above: The Cunderdin Australian Climate Reference Network station, a BoM official photo. Source: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/map/stations/010035.shtml
There’s an effort to the surfacestations.org project underway in Australia to have a look at the quality of siting of stations, see here.
They write:
We have now looked at 18 separate stations (out of a total of 103), in three separate categories. So far, not one of these stations meets the criteria of being “away from large urban centres” and the CRN quality standards of NOAA/NCDC in terms of siting.
Unless there is a dramatic improvement in the remaining 85 stations, we would be well justified in asking the questions: “Just how reliable is the RCS network data and how valid are any conclusions that are drawn from them”?
h/t to Andrew Bolt in Is this how to measure our warming?
Along these lines, there’s a new paper out related to station siting, but it is in French. I could use Google translate, but it tends to do a poor job of technical papers. It is 14 pages long, with a lot of white space. Any volunteers? Leave a comment if you can. – Anthony
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Across the fence past the big green “box” would be my guess.
I’d guess it’s on the roof but it’s not clear is it?
It’s true that someone is lying about the “rural” nature of these stations, but, they are much better off than some of the U.S. stations that surfacestations has been showing. At least they’re not in a parking lot surrounded by air conditioners. Although, the one surrounded by steel fence and the one with the shade tree and the sprinkler are pretty funny. Oh, almost forgot the one dumped under builder’s rubble. Now, that was bad.
Would it be worth it to set up some new screens near the official ones to compare results? How much deviation do you really get from these bad sitings? I’ve asked this sort of question a number of times, how bad is the error, and nobody has posted a reply. You don’t want to end up being purely skeptical.
That’s Cunderdin, not Cunderlin or Cunderin. I used to live near there.
Oh, man, this is not gonna be a good day to be an Aussie. How about we watch Crocodile Dundee again instead of looking at this photo?
I always thought Australia was a civilized county.
Never thought they would temper with scrap yards turning them into weather stations!
Is it in the green eco bin, fermenting with caggage and bud dregs?
The White box on a blue post near the ground with the letters E and N on it.
REPLY: No, that’s the marker.
Under the pile of rubble by the fence to avoid direct Solar heating?
DaveE.
The little white box just in front of the wheel barrow. Can see N and E on the sides ( for North and East? ) .
I could certainly give a try to the translation of the french paper. English is not my mother tongue, french is, but I think I can beat Google translation.
I cannot promise (at least without a look at the paper first) a quick and perfect job, only a fair, understandable (at least I hope) within 10-15 days (busy with job and family).
I ll be very glad to being able to help you and contribute to your efforts.
Inside the big green box?
/Mr Lynn
Next to the fence on the other side of the smaller green garbage can?
I’m french canadian I could look at the paper.
sHx (15:41:07) :
Oh, man, this is not gonna be a good day to be an Aussie. How about we watch Crocodile Dundee again instead of looking at this photo?
And remember Australia’s glory days, when her people firmly defended their independent pioneering spirit, before succumbing to the politicians and do-gooders, who took away the hunting rifles and threw Nick in prison for carrying a deadly weapon, whose government now engages in ruinous environmental policies to the detriment of her citizens, and would be all set up to soon claim status as just another minor third-world country save for a historical connection to the once-great British Empire?
I think not.
Next to the left side of the green corrugated shed thing along the fence buried under that construction debris. The top is just visible under the rh end of some boards sitting on it at an angle. It’s just to the right of the center of the image.
peace,
Tim
On top of the roof?
It’s the official photo on a gov.au site… Do they have an official policy to cover the thermometers with rubble? 😉
Its inside the green lean-to structure.
Terry
My guess is IN the green box structure in front of the fence.
I never liked Cunderdin, and now I remember why. It used to make Soweto look sophisticated.
Is that the weather station on top of the tin roof? Or is it actually the green bin with the lid ripped off (rain guage – not that you’d get much)?
It’s not there, it’s been moved?
Sorry Dave the camera man is sitting on it.
succinct.
21 March: Quadrant: Barry Brill: End-phase of the Climate Wars?
History may see the interview of CRU’s Professor Phil Jones by the BBC’s Roger Harrabin on 12 February 2010 as the opening of the end-phase of the long-running “alarmists versus sceptics” debate…
The world has been experiencing a long-term gentle warming since the end of the Little Ice Age. Professor Jones has said elsewhere[i] that this natural variability has averaged 0.11C per decade. So, the “extraordinary” recent warming that calls for explanation is the balance of 0.051C per decade.
This is the smoking gun. It is the sole evidence that a measurable but unexplained increase in global temperatures has coincided with the post-1950 increase in human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Jones says that this correlation is evidence of causation, because the IPCC has no other explanation…
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/03/end-phase-of-the-climate-wars
The real question is why would there be a weather station in that photo