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…
Category: GHCN
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…
Where the !@#$% is Svalbard's Weather Station?
In the previous WUWT entry, Willis posted his data on the Svalbard weather station, noting that it is spliced data and that the station data has been merged in nearby…
GISS & METAR – dial "M" for missing minus signs: it's worse than we thought
Here’s a story about how one missing letter, an M, can wreck a whole month’s worth of climate data. It is one of the longest posts ever made on WUWT,…
Spencer: Direct Evidence that Most U.S. Warming Since 1973 Could Be Spurious
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION My last few posts have described a new method for quantifying the average Urban Heat Island (UHI) warming effect as a function of…
On the "march of the thermometers"
I’ve been away from WUWT this weekend for recovery from a cold plus family time as we have visitors, so I’m just now getting back to regular posting. Recently on…
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