The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has just updated their global temperature land station data to the end of 2009 – so we can make decadal anomaly maps to check on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) claim that the decade 2000 through 2009 was the hottest ever in Australia. Eyeballing the area … Continue reading NASA GISS data does not back BoM hottest decade claim
While discussing Darwin data I was pointed to this file master.dat.com in the FOIA(leaked ClimateGate file) documents folders. I was amazed to find the 14MB file is in fact the Jones et al 1999 station data – another gem from FOIA. So this is a considerable step forward in our uncovering of Jones et al … Continue reading Hide the decline – new Jones station data file from 1999
“Record hot start to December 2007”, trumpets the BoM Darwin Office on Monday 3 December 2007. When you check to see daily max and mins for a range of Northern NT stations, (scroll down past the green rainfall data to the pink and blue max and min temperature data). You find that this heat wave … Continue reading Warming bias in media releases from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)
On the 12 Jan the Darwin BoM said (read further below) that the then “monsoon trough” would move north leaving Alice Springs dry. I watched the BoM website radar and satellite images and there was rain on the Monday and the clouds on the satellite image seemed to hang around the general vicinity of the … Continue reading Bureau of Meteorology gets Alice Springs forecast horribly wrong