THE ÅS TEMPERATURE SERIES IN SOUTHERN NORWAY–HOMOGENEITY TESTING AND CLIMATE ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.2478/bgeo-2014-0001Keywords
homogenization, monthly temperature mean, formula for monthly mean temperature, rural temperature data, long-term climate data, temperature trend, AnClimAbstract
Homogeneity is important when analyzing climatic long-term time series. This is to ensure that the variability in the time series is not affected by changes such as station relocations, instrumentation changes and changes in the surroundings. The subject of this study is a long-term temperature series from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås in Southern Norway, located in a rural area about 30 km south of Oslo. Different methods for calculation of monthly mean temperature were studied and new monthly means were calculated before the homogeneity testing was performed. The statistical method used for the testing was the Standard Normal Homogeneity Test (SNHT) by Hans Alexandersson. Five breaks caused by relocations and changes in instrumentation were identified. The seasonal adjustments of the breaks lay between –0.4°C and +0.5°C. Comparison with two other homogenized temperature series in the Oslo fjord region showed similar linear trends, which suggests that the long-term linear temperature trends in the Oslo fjord region are not much affected by spatial climate variation.
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