Jones et al 1986 SH and NH Stations By
Country
These pages were built
by Karl Lehenbauer after hearing
about the Jones et al / CRU global temperature data from Warwick Hughes. Note the
NH station data has the Jones et al corrections applied - but the SH
station file
was left raw. No doubt the SH corrections were applied during
their processing by FORTRAN and will
be incorporated in the grid point anomalies. Note; the Jones
corrections are found as 12 monthly numbers (t x 10) in the Appendices
A in the TR022 and TR027 report. As prioities permit we
will be;
[1] applying the
SH corrections which are recorded in Appendix A
in the TR027
SH documentation book, now online. The TR022 NH book
is 346 pages and would be a large scanning job to get on
line. Getting TR022 online could be facilitated if a volunteer
could locate a library copy and attend to scanning to pdf. We know
original copies were distributed to the following places - and should
still exist in libraries, several copies to Uof EA at Norwich of
course, several around DoE in Washington DC, many at DoE Oak Ridge
Tennessee, U of Mass, NOAA in Boulder Co, U of Wash Seattle, U of
Virginia, U of Mich., Ann Arbour.
[2] Then work
at eliminating errant data entry - eg examples from Peru
- other examples of typos / whatever -
in the monthly data
[3] before aiming to replicate the
Jones grid point
anomalies - downloadable from the DoE - CDIAC (ano files
= gridppoint anomalies, dat files station monthly data).
[4] When we
get to those
stages it will be interesting to experiment by taking out cities, or
extending rural data, consideration of stations not used by Jones et al
and no doubt comparisons with neighbours will be important. We
probably have only a synoptic idea how
this project might evolve and if anybody has knowledge of this or that
country or regions data and wanted to help, then you can email
sanur2007 at sign warwickhughes.com or leave a
comment on my Blog. It must be remembered that the Jones et al 1986
hemispheric compilations gave birth to IPCC global warming as we
know it today. While we have the TR022 NH and TR027
documentation books explaining what Jones et al DID for these early
years to 1986-1991 - but we have no equivalent documentation for later
iterations of Jones et al global temperature data. So this is THE
place to start. Please let us know of any glitches.