time of observation bias

tonyb. TOBS is a US problem only, but even in the USA there are and were stations where trained professionals took the readings, and did it correctly. I did pass introductory chemistry, and this is one of the ways that science has been done. B) what about UHI Seems more like to clear the air and set the stage, the fire and works to come. With the US record however we have the advantage of many many records. NASA is apparently deleting inconvenient data, showing how GISS has unduly manipulated US historical temperature records. it’s reasonable to expect that the TOBS bias doesn’t change very much over years, since it depends on the pattern of diurnal variation. Want to work on the problems of getting local scale correct using our approach? They all have a use. LIG max/min, one series, mmts new series, no TOBS adjustment required other than obvious breaks. to seee models re run with accurate forcing. Who am I to disagree.’ It’s not trapping new heat from the energy budget. Small deviations 10,20 30% will change answers at the margins. B) Given the data we have about the change in TOB the adjustment ===========, Just substitute the word thermometers for satellites in your first paragraph. Record keeping in most of the world has never been nearly as accurate as it has been here in the U S. For scientists to claim they have some accurate sense of historic global temperatures is crazy. My experience, having done what she is doing, went like this. We are still on that same cycle and most do not even try to find out what caused it. And I have said this before. If there were a forgotten trove of long fully homogenous temperature records to use, it would be pretty nice. I have a blog at https://logiclogiclogic.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/ that talks about “what is a temperature anyway?” A large portion of the temperature change seems to be happening as higher lows in the middle of the night. An image of a common minimum-maximum thermometer is shown in Figure 3. In fig. (again). That is one of the big known unknowns that is more important than the last refinement in the standard errors of the temperature estimates. Yet these differences are 200 times what we see elsewhere in the data, and there does not seem to be any plausible physical explanation. The temperature trend near the surface is not height invariant. Just how the PWS manage 288 readings per day in real time yet the Met Office takes 3 months to produce 2 numbers representing each month is a modern day wonder. Also it has been shown that MIN is more sensitive to siting error and UHI contamination, so you will have more accurate trend data from MAX alone. Hope that helps. Not much is controlled, and not much is recorded accurately as wanted day in and day out, and the recording devices change irregularly without adequate documentation. This would capture any changes over time to the climate of the station, without requiring any TOBS adjustments to be applied, and I think it would be a good reality check to see if the TOBS adjustments now being applied are proper. You start out hoping to overturn everything they argued. Hansen said parts of New York would be under water by now, it isn’t but nobody takes any notice. To test this hypothesis, this paper evaluates the reliability of these ‘‘time of observation bias’ ’ adjustments in HCN. If you then take the difference between the results with 8 hours change, you see that when there are peaks they appear around noon. Abbreviation is mostly used in categories:Climate Temperature Warming Technology How often are temperatures double counted in the synthetic exercise? How does it look if say the week day observations were evening but the weekends were morning? Thus there is a net trend in the daily average of the measured temperature. See also Hansen et al 2010 If a larger number of stations are chosen to provide spatial coverage, confidence limits would be wider owing to poor data quality. So let me make sure I get this: Someone analyzing temp records is trying to deceive, to get others to believe things that aren’t true (i.e., sell a bill of goods), and “bullying” those who aren’t deceived… but isn’t tampering. I will repeat that we did NOT set our to make the best homogenizer Plus, that 20% figure is just for the effect on the global trend. Disconnect in the relationship between GMST and ECS. Now its your turn. I mean, nobody was going to build an Opera House there. Their code is here: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/software/, GISS has all their code here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sources_v3/ ( much of it agriculture related ) should be ashamed of themselves. And if so, I’d think people would be entitled to see the results of the tests. People who say dumb things are easy to dismiss. Looking at the range of values of the coefficients they calculated for various months however, one could easily make an awful mess of things too. Steven Mosher | February 23, 2015 at 8:46 pm | Abu Dhabi is 3.61 +/- .62. ), and calculated the maximum, minimum, and mean temperatures for all of the 24 hours periods in the CRN data. Not a single one. I have no idea why it matters if global temps are up a bit, down a bit or pausing a bit. Steven Mosher | February 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm |. I’m not doing your homework. It doesn’t inspire confidence they are being handled properly if the methodologies used to account for it can result in significantly different temperature patterns for the United States. At least worth of an experiment. And the real average of a lot of measurements over 24 hours must differ from the max-min derived. BUT it is a good place to start. he didnt have much luck. The truth is half of global warming comes from adjusting the past, half of what is left is natural and half of what is left of that is our influence since 1970 (alleged) meaning, of the “measured” 1 degree of warming in that time, we “may” be responsible for 10% of the warming since 1850. That prediction has an error. But it would have the benefit of eliminating TOBs. It’s not intuitive, but has been recognized for many years that the time of day used for the readings can exert some bias toward higher or lower average temperature determinations. The thing is that without rigorous re testing its hard to pin it down If you doubt this, look at the starting values of the anomalies for uscrn. Is this verifiable and does it warm the present thus creating a biased warming signal? It isn’t “simple”. Boulder has large variations, so the average of theese max readings can change more that 0.8C by changing reading time from morning to afternoon. Certainly the time at which those extrema actually occurred does matter. It was very precise method of calculation. Its not like I was the lead author of a major paper published in JGR on UHI in the U.S. or anything (which, I should mention, is linked in the post): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012JD018509/abstract, For folks interested in UHI, my presentation at the AMS meeting back in 2011 might be relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXRZQ3ASa4. =============. rather stable over time.”. Neither provides code to the public to document what they do. But then you go extract conclusions from low quality data for the precision you claim…, Nick, if the thermometer does record permanently the true exact maximum temperature, and the exact minimum temperature, it matters not at what time of the day those numbers are read. You’re in denial. And for any government agency- NOAA/NCDC- to make a claim that last year was the warmest year on record for the earth is outright unsubstantiated crap. The only areas where the problems were tough and the answers uncertain was UHI and microsite. That is highly relevant, even if those differences might wash out when taking a global average. NOAA-11, for example, drifted from 1400/0200 to about 1800/0600 during six years, becoming essentially a morning satellite. I was not convinced by the explanations of the reasons for TOB, but I was even more dubious about the validity of relying min/max values to calculate an accurate average temp. The real question is whether it is natural or manmade and the difference between models and measurements – as Dr Mears observed – tells us we really still don’t know that. Duh. one man reading a selection of documents isnt science. that was true in 2009, 2010, 2015.” While the impact of adjustments that correct for these biases are relatively small globally (and actually reduce the century-scale warming trend once oceans are included) there are certain regions where the impact of adjustments on temperature trends are large. People can’t live in the ocean and few stay in Antarctica. And one that should be friendly to the the conservatives understanding of TOBS! =============. if you want to see how USCHN does its TOBS adjustment to raw. Links to http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/FigD.txt and http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v2/Fig.D.txt are out of date, whereas they were still valid few weeks ago…. Of course the fact the troposphere didn't cook up was the cause of satellite data being, in some people's minds, "marginalised". Figure 7. the goal is to create a series that goes back in time. you should find some earlier versions of this along with some Observer bias is a type of detection bias that can affect assessment in observational and interventional studies. That would make it nearly impossible to isolate micro-site biases based on instrument type, i.e. Our job is to measure WARMING or TREND as accurately as possible, to remove changing biases, not constant ones.” Yet the constant evolutions of historical records tell another story. The obsession with anomalies is disturbing, all we need is the measurements and averages, but we only use the measurements for future work, not the averages. dmacleo, You don’t sound skilled in controlled experiments. Deal. in 1986 a test was conducted using hourly data to predict the TOB bias for the US. I could see the same thing just by looking at the hours spent above or below the mean. 12 (readings / hr) * 24 (hours) * 365 = 1,681,920. will generate 2000 sites with adjustments that are wrong. Oddly, the trend of MAX temps don’t show warming…. So you love to hate them and hate to love them. That would also happen if both methodologies suffered from similar problems (or problems which cause similar effects). All through the numbers mincer to create artifacts that really have no bearing on the real world. The TOBS adjustment is based on the theory that tens of thousands of historical observers were both stupid and irresponsible. simple fact. Offhand I don’t think we did any explicit comparison between Berkeley’s empirical adjustments at TOBs breakpoints and the Karl et al adjustments (though that sort of analysis would be interesting!). I second your request for a statement on that issue. (Miriam O’Brien aka slandering “Sou” from Hotwhopper, that means you.). 2 he has about 1040 or so total stations, so are the zombies mid-night or mixed in with am/pm group :). Nick, in that case, what number of days per year does one of the hour reading stations record a maximum reading smaller than that of 5 O’Clock the previous day? There are still tons of details I don’t understand the reasoning behind. And when I was almost done with my preliminary analysis I reread some of the posts on TOB and discovered the NOAA and other sources of official temperature data. Since the effective bias in the monthly average is N/60 of the average bias in mistaking yesterday’s reset temperature for todays inside extremum N times during the month, the effect is quite small and can be partially corrected by flagging sporadic extrema that correspond to the recorded reset temperature. As an asideissue it just ain’t warming!, so in the end, GISS, NOAA adjustments ect will end in the dust bin of scientific fraud history bin. I will (and have in my papers) “sign off” on current adjustments as the best attempt to assess global temperatures. An informative answer might be e.g. Goddard: Satellites adjust one know instrument ‘ I guess I was wrong about TOBS”. UHI Think of it as a test of good faith. That could well be true. For some customers I use tmax. C) MMTS — yet again We don’t know for how long. That work is especially tedious because to diagnose why we have a different estimate for say France, you have to separate station effects Your phraseology suggests bias on your part, which I doubt was there in that form. The quote you reference was only in relation to BEST. While some TOBs changes did occur during the period of MMTS transition, the two are distinctly different and mostly unrelated. I’m less familiar with the German case, but there is an analogue in the MMTS example in the U.S. where side-by-side tests were used extensively. That would be well explained by this article if there weren’t other effects. John – we are talking mean DAILY temperature. How much do they say is stored there? The model was tested on 28 independent stations, and the results … “Troubling”, I can agree with. Well it all seems self flagellation to me; anyhow. Most of these PWS’s record at 5 minute intervals, a few at 15. When they read the thermometer is not relevant. ——————————————————————— Why not calculate Tmean directly from the area under the curve? Or are there corrections for that? The third link was mangled apparently. Is it the historical daily average of highs and lows and has anyone looked at the UHI effect at Reagan airport. The Kingston station had its time of observation shifted at 4:30 PM. Not only is that bad practice, it means people reading your guy’s original paper will have nothing which directly informs them of what has changed. run it. Interestingly, there is a strong seasonal cycle in the TOBs bias, with the largest differences seen in February, March, and April, similar to what Karl et al 1986 found. When the time of observation is systematically changed from afternoon to morning in the Climate Reference Network, a clear cooling bias emerges. But now all those data are being dumped into the algorithms, and predictably you end up with GIGO. The talk about “Extreme weather events” which are actually getting less extreme and less frequent. they change time of observation ( drift) Adjusted lower pre 1960 and adjusted more linear post 1960 (not adjusted to increase but to match CO2 growth) Revisionism of records for countries. Click to access peterson-vose-1997.pdf. A large loss of stations in cold parts of the world too in Russia Res., 114, D05105, but there would not be any point to it from reconstructing the past. If the Max Temp is important and should be measured, why shouldn’t Min Temp be measured as well? Absent that, your simple demonstration lacked scientific rigor and is less than convincing. The color curves are what you would get if you read as a max-min thermometer, reading at various times. Bring your best stuff and outscience the other team. If there is a great deal of trouble in resolving things for the more reliable data, I’d hate to imagine what my happen with the less reliable data. The current global record is not fit for purpose because of the nature of the data used in it. I was pretty shocked when I found the comment above made back in 2007. We definitely couldn’t explain your graph if all that mattered were homogenization, but that’s obviously not the case. Some time ago I was doing my own comparison of USHCN raw versus adjusted and average difference of about 0.5 C upwards was one of things I noticed in it. There are some who claim otherwise; hopefully your post can enlighten them. Steven Mosher May 5, 2016 at 7:17 pm But whence all this precision? Perhaps, I should have said “may simply” instead of “may only” as that is closer to what I meant. can use very short records, whereas the methods employed by other Who is they? http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/national-temperature-index/time-series?datasets%5B%5D=uscrn&datasets%5B%5D=climdiv¶meter=anom-tavg&time_scale=ann&begyear=2005&endyear=2016&month=3 they use it for making business decisions. MMTS (at least the ones used by co-op stations) do not record hourly temperatures and provide a daily min/max value that needs to be reset at the observation time just like old LiG min/max thermometers.”. When you see what they have done to the records of countries like Iceland, and openly talked about “getting rid of some of the 1940s blip” and you see the NASA adjustments, wow, how does one deluded themselves into thinking this is not suspicious, very suspicious. Science, mate. The correction can also be significantly larger than the numbers quoted by Zeke. There is a study of a German transition from traditional glass mercury thermometer measurement stations to the new electronic measurement system, http://notrickszone.com/2015/01/14/germanys-warming-happens-to-coincide-with-late-20th-century-implementation-of-digital-measurement/, where a side-by-side run of the old and new equipment for 8.5 years found that the new equipment yielded a temperature reading 0.93 C higher on average. operations Jo Nova has a report on the work of a retired scientist. 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