I had hoped to have this ready in time for heat wave season, as it would have been quite useful in July. Pursuant to my post about July average temperatures being lower with the new Climate Reference Network -vs- the old surface network, let me show you a sneak peak of what will be coming online in a few days.
This is just one of many graphics and data files that will be coming online representing data from the new Climate Reference Network.
Critics will of course say: “So what? Anybody can plot temperatures on a map and do averages”. True, but getting this all programmed, automated, polished, and running without any human intervention producing hourly maps from an obscure NOAA satellite feed is a whole different animal. If it was easy, somebody would have already done what I’m doing in a project that has been in development since Feb 2012.
The goal is to make the pristine “platinum standard” CRN temperature data more accessible, more palatable for the average person, and ready for use in websites and TV broadcasts. Right now it mostly sits in a corner at NCDC, and seldom gets cited in any of the news reports on national or regional temperatures in the USA. It will be a free and open public resource when it is completed. Both °C and °F displays will be provided along with analysis maps, graphs, and data.
While the above single map doesn’t look like much now, the full extent and value of this effort will become clearer later when I post the official announcement in the next week or two.
Thanks for your work. Keep at it.
Well done that man!
Is there an app for that? 😉
Thanks, Anthony,
This will be a good thing, best of luck!
hot damn…………Thank you!!!!!
Yes, a huge thank you!!!!
sure to be interesting, anthony.
some extraordinary “denier” “in denial” attacks on americans on BBC Business Daily yesterday. seems there are deniers in the US who don’t even believe the climate changes at all!
12 Oct: BBC Business Daily: Justin Rowlatt: USA’s climate change
We go deep into the mighty Hoover Dam to explore the challenges of the United States’ changing climate…
In one of the US’s driest regions, the Hoover Dam is part of a network of reservoirs which traps the waters of the Colorado river.
Justin Rowlatt talks to:
Dr Terry Fulp, regional director of lower Colorado region of the Bureau of Reclamation, who is responsible for the water supply to millions of Americans.
Pat Mulroy, the head of the South Nevada Water Authority which serves Las Vegas.
And Professor Henry Jacoby, who works on the science and policy of Global Climate Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ywhjd
Professor Henry D. Jacoby
Position:
Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management
Co-Director Emeritus, Joint Program
Director Emeritus, CEEPR
http://globalchange.mit.edu/about/our-people/personnel/all_id/39
Clearly the first thing that will be available is the diurnal variation, what simple max/mins mean, and how these simple metrics differ from rural to urban, urban to airport . Within one year we will know how what Hansen has created for the contiguous US compares with simple observations simply done.
And behind the curtain stands a man (men) who is (are) suspicious that the data they pull won’t match the data presented by Hansen et al.
This will drive Romm and Connolly wild: Apples and Oranges! they will cry.
Maybe not.
Unlike the warmists, the serious skeptics like you are getting real, additional data.
This is amazing! Sounds like a “peer-reviewed” paper of original research that Jones, Mann et al always say the skeptics should do … Now what will they say? Right, A’s and O’s.
Is there a Nobel prize for showing a Nobel prize was inappropriately awarded? Perhaps a Darwin Award could be added to Gore’s collection.
Good stuff, Anthony. A platinum presentation of the platinum standard.
I look forward to seeing it on TV.
Thank God.
Can we glean any historical info from this database?
Trenberth won’t like it.
Doug Proctor says:
October 12, 2012 at 3:24 pm
“Is there a Nobel prize for showing a Nobel prize was inappropriately awarded? ”
The one(s) behind Climategate are the one(s) deserving a Nobel prize.
TV Broadcasts? Hmm, you could do more to bring the CRN to the attention of the general public than anyone in gov’t circles. That would be neat. (I’ve long since given up on on the gov’t doing anything like that. Except for JPL and the various Mars rovers.)
Warmists will tell you it was funded by the Koch Bros so it must be tainted. Yet Muller et al’s study which was funded by the Koch Bros is OK.
(Apologies if this was not funded by Koch as I am just going on memory about the weather project you were doing)
REPLY: No, Koch brothers not involved. Even if they were, all the data presented is traceable back to NOAA and the averages etc can easily be replicated, so there isn’t any bias claims that would hold water on the data I’m presenting. – Anthony
could it be possible to include the net departure from a baseline average? Lets say that the average temp for a given day is 67 but the current day is 66.2, this would give a net departure from average of -.8
REPLY: Sure, anything is possible, there’s only so much time and resources I have available and I don’t even have the website finished yet…so this really isn’t the time to be asking. – Anthony
Assume funds came from Heartland Institute?
REPLY: No, not from their coffers directly. They pitched the idea to some private donors and one responded. Gleick with his document theft tried to make a big deal out of all this to turn it into some evil plot…and all it is is just programming and plotting numbers and a user friendly open access way. – Anthony
Well good for you Anthony. I hope it is a commercial success as well as a personal triumph.
I hope I live to see observations and forecasts that include Alaska, and maybe even the western Canadian provinces. A lot of the Northwest winter weather is driven by systems in southern Alaska and Canada.
It would be interesting if you had an archive of data, and if you could somehow backfill dates back as far as practicable.
To paraphrase one of my favorite authors, “more open objective, publicly accessable information good, hidden, mysterious data bad.” Good luck with the new site, Anthony. 😉
Brad says:
October 12, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Assume funds came from Heartland Institute?
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You gonna cast the first stone ?
“…getting this all programmed, automated, polished, and running without any human intervention producing hourly maps from an obscure NOAA satellite feed is a whole different animal…”
Another problem will be to ensure the raw data received is “locked down” and stored – we all know how existing data is “adjusted” later on.
Hoser says:
October 12, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Umm, the goal of the CRN is to provide a new, well sited, and well maintained climate record. Pretty much by definition any other archive will dilute the data quality of CRN. Good climate data takes decades to obtain. Patience….
henrythethird says:
October 12, 2012 at 6:17 pm
The siting is designed to not suffer from urban encroachment for quite a while. While it’s certainly worthwhile keeping a separate archive, I don’t believe there is a current mission of chaning old data. However, “eternal vigilance” is warranted.
Is this what Heartland paid for?
If these United States could be called a body, Kentucky can be called it’s heart.
Gobsmacking stuff. Luvya, man!