A Reexamination of Climate Change Issues
The SurfaceStations.Org Project
December 4, 2009
Grass roots efforts by a website SurfaceStations.org has surveyed over 1000 USHCN weather measuring stations so far, checking the legitimacy of their configurations. It is shown that a large proportion of the stations have issues such as being placed too close to hot air conditioner exhaust or being surrounded by pavement and concrete.
Criteria used are based on NOAA’s Climate Reference Network Site Handbook.
Noticeable Temperature Differences Depending on Weather Station Configurations
A large proportion of weather measuring stations across the country are shown to bias their readings, due to initially being misconfigured and also due to changing land use over time which increasingly surrounds the stations with environmental factors such as asphalt or concrete, and also such heat generating objects as air conditioners.
A large proportion of weather measuring stations across the country are shown to bias their readings, due to initially being misconfigured and also due to changing land use over time which increasingly surrounds the stations with environmental factors such as asphalt or concrete, and also such heat generating objects as air conditioners.
Images of Misconfigured Weather Stations from SurfaceStations.org
Following are samples of images of misconfigured weather stations from the website SurfaceStations.org. Currenly the configurations of over 1000 stations across the country have been documented on this site.
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