From The Reference Frame, 30 July 2011 via the GWPF HadCRUT3: 30% Of Stations Recorded A Cooling Trend In Their Whole History The warming recorded by the HadCRUT3 data is…
Category: GHCN
Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability
This is an excerpt of a larger document by Tony Brown (Tony B on WUWT and other blogs) that he will be happy to make available. He writes: Some months…
NCDC's Dr. Thomas Peterson: "It's a knife fight"
This is a row screencap from this Twitter page: http://twitter.com/scio11 It comes from the January 13-16th, 2011 Science Online conference held in the Research Triangle Park in Durham. Details at…
Australia's white summer, Monbiot's red fury
Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow Excerpts from Physorg.com Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual…
Apropos today – Turkey weather station
No, not CRS stuffing. But, an odd weather station in Adana, Turkey.
GHCN V3 temperature data errors spotted within a day of release
From the Inconvenient Sceptic, word that the new Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN) Version 3 may not have significant quality control. He writes: I have been looking at tweaking the…
"Gross" Data Errors in GHCN V2. for Australia
UPDATE: 11/11/10 An errata has been posted, see the end of this essay – Anthony Guest post by Ed Thurstan of Sydney, Australia Synopsis This study shows that the NOAA…
Metadata fail: 230 GHCN land stations actually in the water
Why is this important? Well if you are calculating UHI for stations by looking at satellite images of nightlights, like GISS does (see my post on it at CA) ,…
Phil Jones and the Chinese weather station corruption
WUWT readers may recall the bizarre saga of Douglas Keenan’s attempt to bring the research data of CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones and SUNY’s Dr. Wei Chyung Wang to sunlight, which…
Metadata Errors in the global weather station database
Errors in GHCN metadata inventories show stations off by as much as 300 kilometers Guest post by Steven Mosher In the debate over the accuracy of the global temperature nothing…
Middlesboro Kentucky: Pitch Black?
By Steven Mosher. In his august draft of Hansen2010, Dr. Hansen makes the following claim: “We present evidence here that the urban warming has little effect on our standard global…
Watts Up With Nuuk?
NEW UPDATES POSTED BELOW As regular readers know, I have more photographs and charts of weather stations on my computer than I have pictures of my family. A sad commentary…
How not to measure temperature, in the Solomon Islands
People Send me stuff. I get pictures of weather stations from all over the world. Here we have Henderson Field, serving the capital city of Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Hi…
Arctic isolated versus "urban" stations show differing trends
I’ve reposted this here in entirety with permission from Pierre Gosselin of “No Tricks Zone“, and it is well worth the read. Much of this work was inspired by posts…
NOAA it's 12AM, do you know where your metadata is?
For example, until surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton photographed it, there was no metadata to record the fact that this official USHCN station of record is sited over a tombstone. From…
The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN
Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other…
More Gunsmoke, This Time In Nepal
Note to Readers: This is an important post, as Willis demonstrates that NASA GISS has taken a cooling trend and converted it into a warming trend for the one GHCN…
A new must read paper: McKitrick on GHCN and the quality of climate data
This new paper by Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph is a comprehensive review of the GHCN surface and sea temperature data set. Unlike many papers (such as…
Calculating global temperature
I’m happy to present this essay created from both sides of the aisle, courtesy of the two gentlemen below. Be sure to see the conclusion. I present their essay below…
Grave concerns by Pielke Senior: Nature duped with claim of independent surface temp data sets
Image: NOAA USHCN COOP station at Hanksville, UT, sited over a grave. Click for larger image. Photo by surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton First the article at issue: How best to…
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