Guidance on the homogenization of climate station data
Guidance on the homogenization of climate station data

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Authors

Victor Venema, Blair Trewin, Xiaolan Wang, Tamás Szentimrey, Monika Lakatos, Enric Aguilar, Ingeborg Auer, José A. Guijarro, Matthew Menne, Clara Oria

Abstract

Draft guidance on the homogenisation of climate station data of the World Meteorological Organisation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/8qzrf

Subjects

Climate, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Keywords

climate station data, homogenisation, WMO guidance

Dates

Published: 2018-11-06 15:59

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Comment #52 Moritz Büsing @ 2021-10-31 09:19

I may have missed it, but how do you deal with temporary steps in the time series? For example from aging of the screens, replacement of the screens, and then returning aging of the screens.

If temporary steps in the data series from aging effects are treated the same as permanent changes, such as changes in location or instrumentation, then you will add the aging effects at each breaking point. This leads to a large error over many homogenization corrections.