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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
On the wall of the house just to the right of the window.
I went to one of the links in the post—since I don’t see it. It appears Andrew Bolt says it’s amongst the rubble in front of the fence—still, I don’t see it.
Maybe there’s a tin sheet laying under it to reflect sun under its chin.
Dr A Burns (17:28:06) :
Regarding Warwick’s discussion: Willis Island is about 300km away from the GBR, so it beats me why he picked that station. Cairns, Townsville and Mackay are much, much closer.
My guess is it’s on the side of the house, in line with the green dumpster bin.
cheers,
Dang, now I see it, it is right beside the little green rolling garbage can, up against the white wall thing…just exactly where I would have put it (sarc), I bet the results are “robust”
I think it is behind the green garbage bin on the far right against the white fence.
OK … we give up … where is it?
As others have said, wherever the instrument in the picture, a temperature station should be no where near this site.
The reassurances by AGW advocates that they have “adjusted” their data for local heat variances of such weather stations leave me strangely unreassured.
Wrong house?
I see what looks like a weather vane on the roof of the house beyond the fence.
It would be out on the street side.
Crikey !!!!!!!
They’ve built a cloaking device !!!
At the airport?
Jan Pompe (16:46:25) :
“Sorry Dave the camera man is sitting on it.”
High five Jan! Yep, if the shot is bad always blame the camera man!:)
Best regards, suricat.
kadaka (16:20:02) : “…the politicians and do-gooders, who took away the hunting rifles, whose government now engages in ruinous environmental policies to the detriment of her citizens…”
Why do you think they took away your guns, first? Wait ’til you see what’s next.
Perhaps the White cube with the “N” on one face.
Inside the house on the right next to the oven.
Oops. An internal search for ‘airport’ turns Zoltan Beldi saying that the airport has been it’s location for years. Is that true? Or is the real joke being that they forgot to move the darn marker? LOL. 😉
Stone the crows! A wombats gone run off with me weather station!
Give me an infrared picture an I will show you exactly where it is!
Last week on the ABC a very pro-AGW station the Head of the Bureau of Meteorology was spruiking the data from the past 100 years and noting that Australia has been warming since 1950. His continuing mantra was “look at the data”. I believe that climate change is happening but I’m very unsure the data that are the bedrock of the global warming hypothesis are as relaible as they might be. Articles such as this suggest they are not.
pwl,
An ultralight and a FLIR might do the trick. The problem with UHI is that nobody, AFAIK, really understands the spacial effects of… say… putting an asphalt parking lot 20 ft away, vs. directly underneath, vs 100 yards away from a temperature station and that is not something you can do with a FLIR. The surface effect will dissipate somewhat before it gets to station height, and even that can be variable to wind speed and direction.
The thought I’ve been having is if someone could come up with a portable surface station equivalent to capture: wind speed/direction, temp and humidity, and be able to data log accurately with hands-off… you could take a bunch of them and grid them out to spacially and temporally capture various UHI effects.
I’ll go with the post to the immediate right of the wheelie bin too.
& they are proud enough to post this on their website?
Beggars belief.
FaveE.
suricat (18:49:36) :
“Yep, if the shot is bad always blame the camera man!:)”
Blame? What’s better than a shot with a view from the weather station?
…and seriously, if someone could come up with a good design I would be all over doing what I just described.
Anthony,
I know it doesn’t exactly fit with the surfacestations project, but it could be complementary.
If I put my birdfeeder where some of these stations are located I would never see a single bird. Except maybe a roast quail or two.
It is a summer morning in the picture.
I can’t find it!