Queensland, Australia discovers 13-year gap in temperature data – IOTW Report

Queensland, Australia discovers 13-year gap in temperature data

WUWT: By David Mason-Jones

Upon finding a 13-year gap in its data for an important weather station in Queensland, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology homogenised data from 10 other locations to fill-in the missing years. One of these places was more than 400km away and another almost 2.5 degrees of latitude further South.

Is the resulting data credible? No, is the conclusion reached in a research Report by Australian scientist, Dr. Bill Johnston.      

When the US Army Air Force (USAAF) closed its heavy bomber transit base at Charleville at the end of the Second World War the aerodrome reverted to civilian status. The base had been a link in the ferry route delivering aircraft from factories in the US to the war zone.

The whereabouts of any weather observations taken by the Americans is unknown and history is somewhat vague about the dates and times but a 13-year slice of data for Charleville airport from 1943 to 1956 has apparently gone missing.    more here

10 Comments on Queensland, Australia discovers 13-year gap in temperature data

  1. This is absolutely insignificant (400 kilometers) in filling in location data for temperature.

    Show me the calibration records for the instruments. I’ve seen co-located federal installations at an airport that differed by two degrees. THAT is completely unacceptable. The two I’m speaking of are NOAA and FAA.

    I made inquires (instrumentation geek here, I got the chops) as to the discrepancy. About a month later, the discrepancy dropped to less than .1 degree. Somebody actually went out and did their job.

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