9/29/07 UPDATE: We are still waiting on Mr. Steve Bloom to answer this question: “Why is positive bias imparted in USHCN adjustments?” He incorrectly asserts that he has been “banned”…
Raising Walhalla
An odd twist has developed in the past week regarding some data sets that surfacestations.org volunteers have been using to look at individual stations. The data has changed on NASA’s…
My UCAR slideshow and station quality ratings online
With 33% of the USHCN weather station network now surveyed, the site quality rating is now applied, see the USHCN Station Master List file in HTML and XLS format. The…
33% of the USHCN network has been surveyed
I’m pleased to announce that 33% of the USHCN network of 1221 weather stations has been surveyed now by www.surfacestations.org volunteers. With 404 stations surveyed so far, 817 to go.…
NASA's Hansen Frees the Code !
One of the goals I and many other concerned citizens have had this summer is to get full disclosures on the measuring environment, data, methods, and computer source code used…
Friday Funny – "Klaatu Barada Nikto"
According to Box Office Mojo, The classic sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still is going into production and is to open on May 9th, 2008. The original is a sci-fi…
Mount Shasta's glaciers not heeding climate change
From my friends at KOVR-TV in Sacramento, here’s this interesting tidbit: Mount Shasta’s glaciers are advancing rather than receding. Mount Shasta, at 14,162 feet seems to have a mind of…
Pictures do matter
Today I got a piece of delicious irony and satisfaction in seeing that one of the phantom operated climate blogs, Rabett Run, started using photos from www.surfacestations.org to make a…
Upgrading Windows Vista to XP
I mentioned some months ago that I had to purchase Microsoft Vista, preinstalled on a laptop, against my better judgement. You can read about that experience here. Recently, I had…
Toasted – but encouraged
I just finished a 150+ mile round trip from Boulder to get Dillon, CO and Cheesman Reservoir USHCN sites in addition to the Boulder NIST/NOAA site. Cheesman had recently been…
I have Boulder NIST/NOAA site
Boulder is home to National Institute of Standards and NOAA’s research lab…big government facility and probably the most secure weather station in the USA, I had to go through metal…
Conference Day 3 – suggestions
This mornig s session is all about drafting a set of suggestions to forward to other key members of the climate research community using the group knowledge gained from this…
Live at the conference, Day2 – Success
You know your presentation was successful when: 1) Nobody threw rotten fruit 2) People came up to me afterwards and said “I have photos I can get to you” 3)…
Live from the conference, Day 2 – Down to the wire
Ok the next session is starting in a few minutes, less than 2 hours from now I’m going to know if the work I and all of the volunteers at…
Live at the confrence, day 2 – coming up today
This afternoon there will be several presentations that embrace the measurement systems used for the near surface temperature and precipitation records. Of great interest to me is a presentation outlining…
Live from the Conference, day 2 – land cover and GCM's
I just watched a presentation Elsi Sertel from a university in Turkey showing how easy it is to introduce true land cover data into a climate model. Her study area…
Live from the conference, Day2
I’m sitting in a presentation by William R. Cotton, of Colorado State University where he’s talking about the effect of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) on precipitation. He’s making a convincing…
How not to measure temperature – part 30
Russ Steele is out on vacation and doing several surveys while traveling. This one below is from St. George, UT. Here we see an MMTS measuring the temperature near the…
Conference Day1 – van rides and jitters
Well I just finished Day1 at the conference at UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) put together by Dr. Roger Pielke, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation titled: Detecting…
Live from Conference at UCAR, Boulder, CO
I’m currently attending a conference at UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) put together by Dr. Roger Pielke, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation titled: Detecting the Atmospheric Response…
The 10 Climate Monitoring Principles
The National Research Council (NRC 1999) recommended that the following ten climate monitoring principles, proposed by Thomas Karl et al. (NCDC, 1995), should be applied to climate monitoring systems: Management…
Specs on weather stations
There’s been some discussion about specs on siting of weather stations and temperature measurement. Coincidentally, I’ve been conversing with Jos de Laat of KNMI, the Dutch Meteorological Institute who offered…
How not to measure temperature – part 29
The picture above is of Conconully, Washington and comes to me courtesy of Josiah Mault, of the Washington State Climate Office. Mault has been surveying all of the Washington stations…
Equipment Distribution in the US Climate Network
I just finished several days of data compilation and cross checking in preparation for release of the first set of numbers from my www.surfacestations.org project. One of the things I’m…
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