Today I’m starting what may be a two or three part series having a detailed look inside the Eureka Weather Station and the data it produces. Thanks to the manager of the station Rai LeCotey, we have a lot of new information that had not previously been available on the web. Mr. LeCotey has been most gracious and forthcoming and I commend his openness, which as we have seen in Climate Science, is a rare quality. Here’s an aerial view of the station.
click for a larger image
Ecotretas and I looked at a number of what we identified as errors in data from Eureka, Nunavut, Canada weather station. Some errors are real, such as the January 1st 2007 METAR error (caused by transcription error).
We identified what we thought were errors on July 13th and 14th. The Station Manager Mr. LeCotey says that the July 14th new record high temperature “error” was real (meaning meteorological data, not a transcription error), and a function of wind direction bringing air from the North that has been warmed by terrain. He also says he’s working to get the error on Jan 1 2007 corrected in the record. He’s sent along some photo documentation of the July 14th 2009, event. We’ll get to that in a subsequent post, but first some background on the station itself.
Here’s what the Meteorological Instrument Complex looks like:
Looking Southwest at Eureka Met Instrument Compound -7/24/2004 - click to enlarge
The truck is interesting. Note the blowers on top of the Stevenson Screens for continuous aspiration.
Mr. LeCotey provided this official visitors guide to Eureka, which I have posted as a PDF, link below
He also graciously answered a number of questions. His answers are in blue.
1) The sensors in the Stevenson Screens are electronic it appears. Am I correct in assuming they are cabled to the met office? Of what type are they? Thermistors, RTD? Thermocouple?
We use a remote temperature and dew point measuring system type 2. The dry bulb temperature is measured with a thermistor and the dew point is measured with a dew cell.
2) I notice fan aspirators on the screens. Are these run continuously for the electronic sensors, or are they a holdover of earlier times when wet bulb DP/humidty readings required aspiration?
The sensors are housed in a ventilated Stevenson screen that runs continuously. Psychrometer comparisons between the remote system and our mercury thermometers (in a second Stevenson Screen right next to the remote screen) are done once a week with an thorough calibration done once a year.
3) How far away, in meters, is the Met Instrument compound from the nearest structure, such as the bright blue HQ building?
The Stevenson screens are approx. 40 meters
4) Why are there no readings in the first two hours of the day (00 and 01)?
We only do a surface weather program for 22 hours a day. We have a contract with Nav Canada that only wants aviation weather between 06Z to 03Z inclusive.
Surface weather observations are done on the side (with NavCan funding). Our primary function is that we send up 2 weather balloons a day as our commitment to the WMO. We stay on EST all year (there is no point to go to daylight savings time as an extra hour of daylight does mean anything to us when we have 24 hours of daylight in the summer anyway). Therefore, our last observation is at 22:00 EST (local) and we start observing again at 01:00 EST (local). The 23:00 & 00:00 observations are missing as NavCan does not pay us for those two observations.
5) Do the electronic displays have max/min memories?
Yes, our AES remote temperature and dew point (1987) system (RTD-87) measure the max and min temperatures and stores them in memory until cleared by the observer every six hours on the syno. The RTD measures the temperature & dew point every minute.
6) How often are the meteorological instruments calibrated and how is this done?
Psychrometer comparisons between the remote system and our mercury thermometers (in a second Stevenson Screen right next to the remote screen) are done once a week with an thorough calibration done once a year.
7) How are the hourly METAR reports made. Are they transcribed from the paper form to teletype or Internet data, or some other method?
The METARS are transcribe from the 2322 form into a WinIDE quality assurance software system (WinIDE version 3.0, is used as the principle data input system for human METAR observations within EC) that automatically checks for errors/discrepancies and gives a warning to the observer to make a correction before the observation data will be sent out. The WinIDE system is very good and follows the observing criteria of MANOBS very well. It will not allow an observation to be sent out over the met circuit with any errors or unnatural trends as in the case of the temperature being entered in as +23.0°C when it was supposed to be -23.0°C.
There will be subsequent posts on Eureka coming in the next day or two.
Visitor’s Guide to Eureka
1) The sensors in the Stevenson Screens are electronic it appears. Am I correct in assuming they are cabled to the met office? Of what type are they? Thermistors, PTD? Thermocouple?
We use a remote temperature and dew point measuring system type 2. The dry bulb temperature is measured with a thermistor and the dew point is measured with a dew cell.
2) I notice fan aspirators on the screens. Are these run continuously for the electronic sensors, or are they a holdover of earlier times when wet bulb DP/humidty readings required aspiration?
The sensors are housed in a ventilated Stevenson screen that runs continuously. Psychrometer comparisons between the remote system and our mercury thermometers (in a second Stevenson Screen right next to the remote screen) are done once a week with an thorough calibration done once a year.
3) How far away, in meters, is the Met Instrument compound from the nearest structure, such as the bright blue HQ building?
The Stevenson screens are approx. 40 meters
4) Why are there no readings in the first two hours of the day (00 and 01)?
We only do a surface weather program for 22 hours a day. We have a contract with Nav Canada that only wants aviation weather between 06Z to 03Z inclusive.
Surface weather observations are done on the side (with NavCan funding). Our primary function is that we send up 2 weather balloons a day as our commitment to the WMO. We stay on EST all year (there is no point to go to daylight savings time as an extra hour of daylight does mean anything to us when we have 24 hours of daylight in the summer anyway). Therefore, our last observation is at 22:00 EST (local) and we start observing again at 01:00 EST (local). The 23:00 & 00:00 observations are missing as NavCan does not pay us for those two observations.
5) Do the electronic displays have max/min memories?
Yes, our AES remote temperature and dew point (1987) system (RTD-87) measure the max and min temperatures and stores them in memory until cleared by the observer every six hours on the syno. The RTD measures the temperature & dew point every minute.
6) How often are the meteorological instruments calibrated and how is this done?
Psychrometer comparisons between the remote system and our mercury thermometers (in a second Stevenson Screen right next to the remote screen) are done once a week with an thorough calibration done once a year.
7) How are the hourly METAR reports made. Are they transcribed from the paper form to teletype or Internet data, or some other method?
The METARS are transcribe from the 2322 form into a WinIDE quality assurance software system (WinIDE version 3.0, is used as the principle data input system for human METAR observations within EC) that automatically checks for errors/discrepancies and gives a warning to the observer to make a correction before the observation data will be sent out. The WinIDE system is very good and follows the observing criteria of MANOBS very well. It will not allow an observation to be sent out over the met circuit with any errors or unnatural trends as in the case of the temperature being entered in as +23.0°C when it was supposed to be -23.0°C.
Nice to see professionals having a civil interaction.
Good stuff.
Mike D in Alberta
April 24, 2010 3:18 pm
MaxL (14:18:08) :
RichardS (13:40:10) :
Further to Max’ note, Eureka is far enough north that the normal “night” and “day” variations apply a lot less. Thinking of summer as “day” and winter as “night” makes more sense to me than the 24 hour clock that means so much to the densely populated areas. Yes, there will be some variations because of the angle of the sun in the sky (or on the other side of the planet) but I doubt that they’d be significant for aviation or the purposes of tracking maxima/minima.
View from the Solent
April 24, 2010 3:20 pm
If I wore a hat I would lift it to Mr. LeCotey. He both accepts that some data were erroneously logged, and provides an explanation for an (apparently outrageous) anomaly. In a polite and factual manner. I would listen to what he has to say.
You state that there will be more on Eureka. Will there be anything from Mr LeCotey on what is involved in the day-to day running of a weather station like this? I’d be interested.
WTF
April 24, 2010 3:29 pm
I am glad to hear that Mr. LeCotey was open and honest with you. I am sure he is a man of good character.
As an after thought though he has nothing to lose by telling the truth. What is EC going to do to him? Send him to Toronto 😉
On second thought….Toronto….Eureka…Toronto…..Eureka. Hmmm tough one.
Sean Peake
April 24, 2010 3:44 pm
Waiting for this thread to develop and just signing on for follow-ups.
nick
April 24, 2010 4:10 pm
“The Station Manager Mr. LeCotey says that the July 14th new record high temperature error was real, and a function of wind direction bringing air from the North that has been warmed by terrain.”
In all likelyhood a Foehn. An example of ‘warming’ produced as a microclimate effect, and not evidence of global warming at all. If this is representative of a large area, its another area that needs to be looked at.
Is it possible to identify? ie. The heat for the warming comes from water vapour.
A combination of humidity, wind directions, and temperature measurements. Does it show the effect?
Nick
Foehn – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
IAmDigitap
April 24, 2010 4:17 pm
I was so surprised to hear someone speaking about climate, and it actually sounding like technologically and instrument management/data analysis coherent speech, i thought i was on the wrong article or one from before Hansen, Schmidt, Jones, Stevens and Mann came along and made lying as a government employee steering policy, the legal norm in western countries.
Just telling the truth and it all making sense; as opposed to ” I haz new magic heat u can’t kno cuz i copyrighted my government funded work but world ending tee-hee-hee!”
Well, there’s one station that we can see plainly the people who massage data to instill terror, that lends some capacity for them to claim they didn’t do anything to it.
Unfortunate thing is when someone’s in the climatic forecasting business they’re supposed to have done something at that point: average it in.
Whenever I hear climate employees in government talk about management of data it makes me want to puke.
Phil Jones, the one caught SAYING he knew it wasn’t heating in 2005 (the scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if i said the world had cooled since 1998. Ok it has but it’s only seven years’ data and it isn’t statistically significant.”)
Phil Jones running the world’s ORGANIZATION and DATABASE ANALYSIS MANAGEMENT REPOSITORY for the G.L.O.B.E. kept a shop SO SHODDY that the author in the HarryReadMe file, in leaving his usage notes for one of the math models (now having their statistics rejected by the Royal Statistical Society as not even being real math, in actual fact: although it hasn’t been formally declared that way, just remarked by the Society’s head, that the statistics are simply not properly done), the author of HarryReadMe made long, and very clear discussion on how simply unNAVIGABLE the records there ARE: even detailing how, as he was constructing his own model parameters, the people there had taught him what their methodology was, and he showed how by every pass through the databases people were making up or REmaking up data out of the clear blue sky: and LEAVING it.
Why was that? Because the data was so spottily kept there in the FIRST place.
Incredible that political parties catching onto this “steer policy through spreading terror” scam are able to do these things and law enforcement being told sit down and shut up, can pretend this kind of policy steering isn’t EXACTLY what transparency laws are made for, and what TERROR laws are made for.
And don’t be so naive as to be fooled, these guys worked in an arm of business and drew a few cranks, Al Gore made an enormous deal out of it because he felt humiliated losing an election.
It caught on and Al Gore led the world in creating a fifth column of government called “Global Warming is Destroying the World, Change Policies to Ours Now or You’ll Die.”
And between government employees threatening everyone in sight who disagreed, using their tenure as such employees to make themselves literally unfireable.
–
Can any of you imagine if in your particular field even as a researcher, you’d have tried to do what these people do? Are doing, while claiming they don’t know they are doing it?
Well… anyhow it’s just nice to hear someone connected to climate speaking and it not sound like a politician found in bed with a live girl AND a dead boy.
geo
April 24, 2010 4:23 pm
All props to Rai LeCotey. It’s nice to get a sense of “we’re all on the same team just trying to figure the planet out”.
May we assume that the current WinIDE system was installed after January 1, 2007? If not, what happened there to allow that failure of QA?
The Sun at Nunavut between 21:00 and 22:00 was only about 18/19 deg. above the horizon. Skies were clear. Is there any chance the sunlight can reflect off the white louvres into the box at these angles?
Billy Liar
April 24, 2010 6:03 pm
I agree with:
nick (16:10:19)
If there was open water behind the ridge in this picture: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2448345
and wind from the appropriate direction there could have been fohn conditions at Eureka.
Gerald Machnee
April 24, 2010 6:03 pm
RE:
nick (16:10:19) :
“The Station Manager Mr. LeCotey says that the July 14th new record high temperature error was real, and a function of wind direction bringing air from the North that has been warmed by terrain.”
In all likelyhood a Foehn. An example of ‘warming’ produced as a microclimate effect, and not evidence of global warming at all. If this is representative of a large area, its another area that needs to be looked at.
Is it possible to identify? ie. The heat for the warming comes from water vapour.
A combination of humidity, wind directions, and temperature measurements. Does it show the effect?
———–
Long time since I was up there. It has been called the Garden Spot of the Arctic because it has more vegetation than other Arctic areas.
Re the Foehn – The warming comes from compression as the air descends to lower pressures. There would not be a significant contribution from water vapour as water would evaporate and use energy instead of contributing it. A thousand feet of descent would add about 3 deg Celcius. At that time of day (evening) I am not sure if there would be any heating from the ground as the sun would be in the north and the north slope that the air would have come from would be in the shade.
Jeff Alberts
April 24, 2010 6:15 pm
From this exchange, it seems our Mr LeCotey is a scientist – weather watcher, and intellegent to boot.
Anthony, Just in from Mark E. Gillar and his radio program.
Chris Horner Drops Bomb: Predicts first major ethics scandal of
the Obama Administration to be revealed on Monday.
April 24, 2010
This morning on Global Cooling Radio, Chris Horner, author of the recently released book, Power Grab: How
Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom And Bankrupt America, revealed that a major ethics scandal
involving someone in the Obama administration will be unveiled on Monday. Here is the complete quote that
comes at the 29:01 mark of the interview:
“You’re going to see the first ethics scandal in the Obama administration. We’ve got our hands on some internal
documents revealing a serious conflict of interest at a very high level on these green jobs and stimulus and the
policies that Carol Browner was talking about. It isn’t Ms. Browner, but it is someone tied to Al Gore.”
– Chris Horner
Note: The statement comes at the 29:11 mark in the interview.
pat (16:54:13) :
. . . BBC lectures us incessantly on climate change. So why did their bosses make 68,000 domestic flights in two years?
Flying is safer.
Keith Minto
April 24, 2010 8:09 pm
Ulric Lyons (18:23:36)
Good link, especially for me and the southern hemisphere.
Note the male ‘BT’ figure over Australia. 🙂 An Aussie version of Aeolus ? http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_sohem_00.gif
Bernd Felsche
April 24, 2010 8:28 pm
I applaud Rai LeCotey’s openness and honesty.
The observed temperature excursion to +20.7 degrees C should be a lesson to all who (ab)use the data. It makes a mockery of using the average of extremes as a basis for making decisions.
A time averaged heat content of the air would be more sensible (excuse thermodynamic pun). The necessary measurements seem to be available. The extra computing power required is (nowadays) trivial. All the data are “up-linked” anyway.
But even such doesn’t produce representative data if stations are so dispersed that local effects such as the one due to a change of wind described, are inherently extrapolated over a distance of 1500 km in order to “fill the gaps” on the computer models. The only fix is more stations if a meaningful surface climate model is to be supported.
ISTM that the failure to adapt to the capacity to measure and calculate is driven by certain “climatologists” already “knowing the answer” to what they want to find. The extreme case of this has already been demonstrated, where the “known outcome” was produced no matter what the input data. That’s willful ignorance.
Frederick Michael
April 24, 2010 8:35 pm
It’s refreshing to see the Eureka staff are highly professional — not surprising though, given what they volunteered for.
The explanation for the brief, but legitimate warm spell argues against using just the low and high for the day to compute the average. Might this explain some of the difference between the surface data and the satellite data (amongst all the other explanations)?
AnonyMoose
April 24, 2010 8:48 pm
1. Item 7 says that negative/positive errors are reduced through the checking by WinIDE. So how did the January 1 2007 error get in the record?
2. No word yet on whether there’s been a change in wind patterns from the North. It’s unlikely that someone has studied one station’s wind patterns, except there are people being paid to manage climate data quality.
3. When did the water lagoon and sewage facilities get built? Large bodies of water absorb more sunlight than do most land types.
4. There seem to be conflicting opinions on the Stevenson screen locations. I don’t know which is Caryl’s “earlier picture”, but if it is the 1997 Wikipedia photo, the Stevenson screens are there. On the right side are drums, to the left construction equipment and a red trailer. The screens are left of the trailer. Two screens lined up with the camera, and the bluish box peeking out from behind them. Look at “Arial 1” at the top of this page and note the pipeline and hydrogen shed at far left of the Wikipedia photo; those show the camera was a long walk at a 30-45 degree angle from the line of the old buildings. The met gear is in a depression and lined up toward the camera, so it’s hard to identify.
Ed Caryl (12:54:51) :
Those Stevenson screens were moved to their present position, probably when the blue building was built. They are not there in the earlier picture.
(in the Dial M article)
Rai LeCotey (Eureka Station Manager) (18:04:04) :
Unfortunately, our ‘official’ temperature recording site has not moved for over 50 years and thus is greatly influenced by the cold Arctic water from Slidre Fjord when the winds are from the East, South or West during the summer months.
AnonyMoose
April 24, 2010 9:07 pm
In AnonyMoose (20:48:45), I called the metal box near the Stevenson screens a bluish box. Gray is a better description. It’s the Navy-like gray which is common on NEMA weatherproof metal enclosures.
Someone who has been there
April 24, 2010 9:35 pm
Rai or Ray LeCotey, I didn’t remember his name but that is him. He was the station manager that didn’t take crap from anyone, he is the mayor of Eureka, the big blue complex there is just like a hotel, and if you have the money you can book reservations there, it is expensive so be prepaired to pay. But they are good people,at least to me they were to my superiors that were making demands there Not So, Rai or Ray put them in their place, at one point there I thought we including my superiors were not allowed to visit the weather station anymore. I felt ashamed of what the OC and the SWO did or said to them at the station, and I had to go down there and conduct business with the new frinds I met with this discord in mind of not knowing what we ( my superiors ) had done to make them angry. Fortunately They didn’t hold that against all of us, as I was always courtous with the station personnel. Ray or Rai, was the king of that castle there, don’t get on his wrong side or you will know!!! just a warning to you.
There was another Station Manager there first when we arrived, he was part of a Nascar team, and wanted to get back to that. Rai replaced him, Rai is about 5′ 8″-9″ tall long black strangly hair, shoulder lenght. A musthache, heavy around the waist ( beer-gut, the whole keg going there) and to me talking to him sounded like talking to a woman, he had that feminine way about him. Made me feel uncomfortable around him at times but was an ok person over all.
Rai LeCotey a scientest? I don’t think so, more like a politician, the other 3 or 4 people there were conducting all the climate readings, and the other 2 were Joby and guy with maientance, basicly they were the air port crew there too, LOL, and 2 more were the cooks. They made the best pizza I have ever eaten those cooks there. and with 24 hour day light there, on the weekend you partied and didn’t know what time it was until you got pissed tired drunk and looked at your watch, I remember one time it was brekfast, because the cook on shift came in and yelled it. so we went to eat breakie. lol and yes Rai was there too. But the Weather/Climate duty person on shift was not. they were not allowed to partake in the feastivities before a shift, As per any other job you would have to do.
Someone who has been there
April 24, 2010 9:42 pm
Over all they were a good crew there, I like them, very freindly, but like anyone they can be cranky too, lol. Just don’t step on rai’s toes or you will know it!
Nice to see professionals having a civil interaction.
Good stuff.
MaxL (14:18:08) :
RichardS (13:40:10) :
Further to Max’ note, Eureka is far enough north that the normal “night” and “day” variations apply a lot less. Thinking of summer as “day” and winter as “night” makes more sense to me than the 24 hour clock that means so much to the densely populated areas. Yes, there will be some variations because of the angle of the sun in the sky (or on the other side of the planet) but I doubt that they’d be significant for aviation or the purposes of tracking maxima/minima.
If I wore a hat I would lift it to Mr. LeCotey. He both accepts that some data were erroneously logged, and provides an explanation for an (apparently outrageous) anomaly. In a polite and factual manner. I would listen to what he has to say.
You state that there will be more on Eureka. Will there be anything from Mr LeCotey on what is involved in the day-to day running of a weather station like this? I’d be interested.
I am glad to hear that Mr. LeCotey was open and honest with you. I am sure he is a man of good character.
As an after thought though he has nothing to lose by telling the truth. What is EC going to do to him? Send him to Toronto 😉
On second thought….Toronto….Eureka…Toronto…..Eureka. Hmmm tough one.
Waiting for this thread to develop and just signing on for follow-ups.
“The Station Manager Mr. LeCotey says that the July 14th new record high temperature error was real, and a function of wind direction bringing air from the North that has been warmed by terrain.”
In all likelyhood a Foehn. An example of ‘warming’ produced as a microclimate effect, and not evidence of global warming at all. If this is representative of a large area, its another area that needs to be looked at.
Is it possible to identify? ie. The heat for the warming comes from water vapour.
A combination of humidity, wind directions, and temperature measurements. Does it show the effect?
Nick
Foehn – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
I was so surprised to hear someone speaking about climate, and it actually sounding like technologically and instrument management/data analysis coherent speech, i thought i was on the wrong article or one from before Hansen, Schmidt, Jones, Stevens and Mann came along and made lying as a government employee steering policy, the legal norm in western countries.
Just telling the truth and it all making sense; as opposed to ” I haz new magic heat u can’t kno cuz i copyrighted my government funded work but world ending tee-hee-hee!”
Well, there’s one station that we can see plainly the people who massage data to instill terror, that lends some capacity for them to claim they didn’t do anything to it.
Unfortunate thing is when someone’s in the climatic forecasting business they’re supposed to have done something at that point: average it in.
Whenever I hear climate employees in government talk about management of data it makes me want to puke.
Phil Jones, the one caught SAYING he knew it wasn’t heating in 2005 (the scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if i said the world had cooled since 1998. Ok it has but it’s only seven years’ data and it isn’t statistically significant.”)
Phil Jones running the world’s ORGANIZATION and DATABASE ANALYSIS MANAGEMENT REPOSITORY for the G.L.O.B.E. kept a shop SO SHODDY that the author in the HarryReadMe file, in leaving his usage notes for one of the math models (now having their statistics rejected by the Royal Statistical Society as not even being real math, in actual fact: although it hasn’t been formally declared that way, just remarked by the Society’s head, that the statistics are simply not properly done), the author of HarryReadMe made long, and very clear discussion on how simply unNAVIGABLE the records there ARE: even detailing how, as he was constructing his own model parameters, the people there had taught him what their methodology was, and he showed how by every pass through the databases people were making up or REmaking up data out of the clear blue sky: and LEAVING it.
Why was that? Because the data was so spottily kept there in the FIRST place.
Incredible that political parties catching onto this “steer policy through spreading terror” scam are able to do these things and law enforcement being told sit down and shut up, can pretend this kind of policy steering isn’t EXACTLY what transparency laws are made for, and what TERROR laws are made for.
And don’t be so naive as to be fooled, these guys worked in an arm of business and drew a few cranks, Al Gore made an enormous deal out of it because he felt humiliated losing an election.
It caught on and Al Gore led the world in creating a fifth column of government called “Global Warming is Destroying the World, Change Policies to Ours Now or You’ll Die.”
And between government employees threatening everyone in sight who disagreed, using their tenure as such employees to make themselves literally unfireable.
–
Can any of you imagine if in your particular field even as a researcher, you’d have tried to do what these people do? Are doing, while claiming they don’t know they are doing it?
Well… anyhow it’s just nice to hear someone connected to climate speaking and it not sound like a politician found in bed with a live girl AND a dead boy.
All props to Rai LeCotey. It’s nice to get a sense of “we’re all on the same team just trying to figure the planet out”.
May we assume that the current WinIDE system was installed after January 1, 2007? If not, what happened there to allow that failure of QA?
O/T but only online a min and want to get this up:
24 April: Daily Mail: BBC lectures us incessantly on climate change. So why did their bosses make 68,000 domestic flights in two years?
Deputy Director General Mark Byford took plane to Manchester for the Open golf… three hours by train
Director General Mark Thompson flew to Newcastle for Tory drinks party… and Glasgow for concert
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268613/Every-night-BBC-lectures-climate-change-So-did-bosses-make-68-000-domestic-flights-years.html
The Sun at Nunavut between 21:00 and 22:00 was only about 18/19 deg. above the horizon. Skies were clear. Is there any chance the sunlight can reflect off the white louvres into the box at these angles?
I agree with:
nick (16:10:19)
If there was open water behind the ridge in this picture:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2448345
and wind from the appropriate direction there could have been fohn conditions at Eureka.
RE:
nick (16:10:19) :
“The Station Manager Mr. LeCotey says that the July 14th new record high temperature error was real, and a function of wind direction bringing air from the North that has been warmed by terrain.”
In all likelyhood a Foehn. An example of ‘warming’ produced as a microclimate effect, and not evidence of global warming at all. If this is representative of a large area, its another area that needs to be looked at.
Is it possible to identify? ie. The heat for the warming comes from water vapour.
A combination of humidity, wind directions, and temperature measurements. Does it show the effect?
———–
Long time since I was up there. It has been called the Garden Spot of the Arctic because it has more vegetation than other Arctic areas.
Re the Foehn – The warming comes from compression as the air descends to lower pressures. There would not be a significant contribution from water vapour as water would evaporate and use energy instead of contributing it. A thousand feet of descent would add about 3 deg Celcius. At that time of day (evening) I am not sure if there would be any heating from the ground as the sun would be in the north and the north slope that the air would have come from would be in the shade.
Or intelligent even.
Interesting circulation in N. Canada, build an animation on here from say 6th July 2009 for 10 days;
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjet_archloop.html
Anthony, Just in from Mark E. Gillar and his radio program.
Chris Horner Drops Bomb: Predicts first major ethics scandal of
the Obama Administration to be revealed on Monday.
April 24, 2010
This morning on Global Cooling Radio, Chris Horner, author of the recently released book, Power Grab: How
Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom And Bankrupt America, revealed that a major ethics scandal
involving someone in the Obama administration will be unveiled on Monday. Here is the complete quote that
comes at the 29:01 mark of the interview:
“You’re going to see the first ethics scandal in the Obama administration. We’ve got our hands on some internal
documents revealing a serious conflict of interest at a very high level on these green jobs and stimulus and the
policies that Carol Browner was talking about. It isn’t Ms. Browner, but it is someone tied to Al Gore.”
– Chris Horner
Note: The statement comes at the 29:11 mark in the interview.
Gerald Machnee (18:03:24) :
“as the sun would be in the north”
About 55 degree West of North at 22:00hrs.
Jeff,
Whatever floats your boat…I ain’t purfict lik U
Mike
pat (16:54:13) :
. . . BBC lectures us incessantly on climate change. So why did their bosses make 68,000 domestic flights in two years?
Flying is safer.
Ulric Lyons (18:23:36)
Good link, especially for me and the southern hemisphere.
Note the male ‘BT’ figure over Australia. 🙂 An Aussie version of Aeolus ?
http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_sohem_00.gif
I applaud Rai LeCotey’s openness and honesty.
The observed temperature excursion to +20.7 degrees C should be a lesson to all who (ab)use the data. It makes a mockery of using the average of extremes as a basis for making decisions.
A time averaged heat content of the air would be more sensible (excuse thermodynamic pun). The necessary measurements seem to be available. The extra computing power required is (nowadays) trivial. All the data are “up-linked” anyway.
But even such doesn’t produce representative data if stations are so dispersed that local effects such as the one due to a change of wind described, are inherently extrapolated over a distance of 1500 km in order to “fill the gaps” on the computer models. The only fix is more stations if a meaningful surface climate model is to be supported.
ISTM that the failure to adapt to the capacity to measure and calculate is driven by certain “climatologists” already “knowing the answer” to what they want to find. The extreme case of this has already been demonstrated, where the “known outcome” was produced no matter what the input data. That’s willful ignorance.
It’s refreshing to see the Eureka staff are highly professional — not surprising though, given what they volunteered for.
The explanation for the brief, but legitimate warm spell argues against using just the low and high for the day to compute the average. Might this explain some of the difference between the surface data and the satellite data (amongst all the other explanations)?
1. Item 7 says that negative/positive errors are reduced through the checking by WinIDE. So how did the January 1 2007 error get in the record?
2. No word yet on whether there’s been a change in wind patterns from the North. It’s unlikely that someone has studied one station’s wind patterns, except there are people being paid to manage climate data quality.
3. When did the water lagoon and sewage facilities get built? Large bodies of water absorb more sunlight than do most land types.
4. There seem to be conflicting opinions on the Stevenson screen locations. I don’t know which is Caryl’s “earlier picture”, but if it is the 1997 Wikipedia photo, the Stevenson screens are there. On the right side are drums, to the left construction equipment and a red trailer. The screens are left of the trailer. Two screens lined up with the camera, and the bluish box peeking out from behind them. Look at “Arial 1” at the top of this page and note the pipeline and hydrogen shed at far left of the Wikipedia photo; those show the camera was a long walk at a 30-45 degree angle from the line of the old buildings. The met gear is in a depression and lined up toward the camera, so it’s hard to identify.
In AnonyMoose (20:48:45), I called the metal box near the Stevenson screens a bluish box. Gray is a better description. It’s the Navy-like gray which is common on NEMA weatherproof metal enclosures.
Rai or Ray LeCotey, I didn’t remember his name but that is him. He was the station manager that didn’t take crap from anyone, he is the mayor of Eureka, the big blue complex there is just like a hotel, and if you have the money you can book reservations there, it is expensive so be prepaired to pay. But they are good people,at least to me they were to my superiors that were making demands there Not So, Rai or Ray put them in their place, at one point there I thought we including my superiors were not allowed to visit the weather station anymore. I felt ashamed of what the OC and the SWO did or said to them at the station, and I had to go down there and conduct business with the new frinds I met with this discord in mind of not knowing what we ( my superiors ) had done to make them angry. Fortunately They didn’t hold that against all of us, as I was always courtous with the station personnel. Ray or Rai, was the king of that castle there, don’t get on his wrong side or you will know!!! just a warning to you.
There was another Station Manager there first when we arrived, he was part of a Nascar team, and wanted to get back to that. Rai replaced him, Rai is about 5′ 8″-9″ tall long black strangly hair, shoulder lenght. A musthache, heavy around the waist ( beer-gut, the whole keg going there) and to me talking to him sounded like talking to a woman, he had that feminine way about him. Made me feel uncomfortable around him at times but was an ok person over all.
Rai LeCotey a scientest? I don’t think so, more like a politician, the other 3 or 4 people there were conducting all the climate readings, and the other 2 were Joby and guy with maientance, basicly they were the air port crew there too, LOL, and 2 more were the cooks. They made the best pizza I have ever eaten those cooks there. and with 24 hour day light there, on the weekend you partied and didn’t know what time it was until you got pissed tired drunk and looked at your watch, I remember one time it was brekfast, because the cook on shift came in and yelled it. so we went to eat breakie. lol and yes Rai was there too. But the Weather/Climate duty person on shift was not. they were not allowed to partake in the feastivities before a shift, As per any other job you would have to do.
Over all they were a good crew there, I like them, very freindly, but like anyone they can be cranky too, lol. Just don’t step on rai’s toes or you will know it!