Monday, December 14, 2009

More Temperature Adjustments Controversy - Nashville Tennessee

It looks like we may have another case of temperature being 'adjusted' to the point of turning a cooling trend into a warming one (previous case). This is the crux of the explanation, but you should head over to the source for the rest. Pay close attention the the second chart.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/11/would-you-like-your-temperature-data-homogenized-or-pasteurized

"After transforming the row data to column data (see the end of the post for a “bleg” about this), the first thing I did was plot the differences between the two series:



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The GISTemp homogeneity adjustment looks a little hockey-stickish, and induces an upward trend by reducing older historical temperatures more than recent historical temperatures. This has the effect of turning what is a negative trend in the HadCRUT3 data into a positive trend in the GISTemp version:


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So what would appear to be a general cooling trend over the past ~130 years at this location when using the unadjusted HadCRUT3 data, becomes a warming trend when the homogeneity adjustment is supplied.

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