Analysis of adjustments to the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database

Robert Balling; Craig D. Idso

doi:10.1029/2002gl014825

Analysis of adjustments to the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database

Robert Balling, Craig D. Idso

Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of (SGSUP)

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The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database is commonly used in regional climate analyses. However, the raw temperature records in the USHCN are adjusted substantially to account for a variety of potential contaminants to the dataset. We compare the USHCN data with several surface and upper-air datasets and show that the effects of the various USHCN adjustments produce a significantly more positive, and likely spurious, trend in the USHCN data.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	25-1-25-3
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	29
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gl014825
State	Published - May 15 2002

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