Natural Resources, School of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2007

Citation

2007 American Meteorological Society

Comments

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2007 BAFft | 913-928

DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-6-9I3

Abstract

Davey and Pielke (2005) presented photographic documentation of poor observation sites within the U.S. Historical Climate Reference Network (USHCN) with respect to monitoring long-term surface air temperature trends. [These photographs were first shown to the community at the 2002 Asheville, North Carolina, meeting of the American Association of State Climatologists (see information online at www. stateclimate.org/meetings/minutes/2002minutes).] Peterson (2006) compared the adjusted climate records of many of these stations and concluded that the similarity between the homogeneity adjusted time series from the good and poorly sited stations supports the view that even stations that do not, upon visual inspection, appear to be spatially representative can, with proper homogeneity adjustments, produce time series that are indeed representative of the climate variability and change in the region.

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