Surfacestations.org volunteer Gary Boden writes in with this contribution:
I’ve attached a Google Earth KML file for all of the USHCN stations with the CRN ratings you assigned as color-coded symbols. Colors match the Excel spreadsheet scheme (CRN-1 = blue, CRN-2 = green, CRN-3 = yellow, CRN-4 = orange, CRN-5 = red) and closed stations with no rating = white. All unsurveyed stations are marked by a symbol (question mark in a circle). A click on the icon shows the USHCN number and name of the station. As far as I can tell it represents the data correctly, but you might check a few
stations.
My sincere thanks to Gary for this effort, it will make finding the unsurveyed stations easier.
You can download the Google Earth KML file here.
Along the lines of the surfacestations project, the Fall 2008 NOAA Cooperative Observer Newsletter has been published. (PDF) And it is chockfull of station and observer photos. Perhaps someone can take a moment to cross check and see if any of the featured stations are USHCN?
Sorry for all the colored dots lately.
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If this is the case, given the amount of CRN-4 and CRN-5 stations, would this mean that the datasets would have been over adjusted on the CRN-1 and CRN-2 stations and the temperature trends are biased towards warming?
Probably. Not only that, but UHI is being severely lowballed because urban stations are judged by surrounding rural stations which are, themselves in severe violation.
To Dan McCune
I look up the last “raw” data sheet in the Govt files for the curators name and site information.
To Tim Clark
I already did Anthony, KS Look in the :
http://gallery.surfacestations.org for
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=2195
My wife and I spent about 20 minutes visiting with thew curator and his wife. Nice folks.
To Tim Clark, Dan McCune
Where are you? I’m in Kinsley. Is it proper to offer to get together here, divy up Kansas?
Robert A Cook PE (17:25:49) : I’ll try that!
DocWat (07:53:57) :
You know I hadn’t been to the ss.o site for a while, it’s good to see that you and other folks (who know what they’re doing) are participating in Kansas. Did he not have the dog out? I went down the alley a while back and it didn’t sound too friendly (No, it wasn’t the fluffy pooch in the picture, this one could eat fluffy). I delivered newpapers as a child and developed a distinct fear of dogs.
“My wife and I spent about 20 minutes visiting
with the curator and his wife. Nice folks.”
I live in Wichita, but work in Anthony for the State Government. Had a little misunderstanding a few years ago. Some folks don’t appreciate good government. Hope he voted for B.O.
Have you done Norton, Oberlin or St Francis, or are the directions you gave from Google? I can probably get those done in one trip this Christmas. We’ll both have trouble doing the east part.