Category Archives: NCDC – GHCN Issues

Problems and issues in the GHCN and other data sets from NCDC the National Climate Data Center, of NOAA.

My, What Big Datasets You Have, Grandma NASA

Posted on 5 February 2017 by

Golly, what big Files you have, NOAA… and how many of them… Seems there is a “SuperGHCNd” set of data showed up on the ftp download server. About 8+ TB worth… Continue reading →

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Polk Co. Florida, Mosaic and GASP! Radiation!!!

Posted on 18 September 2016 by

What horrors of Radiation!!!! await the people of Polk County Florida where Mosaic has had a 40 foot sink hole drain one of their waste Gypsum stacks into the “ground water”? Continue reading →

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Pondering A Funding Campaign

Posted on 23 October 2015 by

A soft of a Delphi Poll about possibilities of success at a crowd funding of a clean computation of a temperature data series. Continue reading →

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CDIAC, Compression, Squashfs, And Oddities

Posted on 11 October 2015 by

Some “Lessons Learned” in making a compressed easy to search archive via squashfs file systems and temperature data file trees. Continue reading →

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CDIAC Scrape Finished

Posted on 6 October 2015 by

The scrape of CDIAC has completed. Here I report on some sizes and such. Continue reading →

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NOAA data scrape completes. At last.

Posted on 1 October 2015 by

A major part of the NOAA data scrape completes. Some sizes and what to expect if you do it. Continue reading →

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Smoothing Data and not Distorting Data

Posted on 13 September 2015 by

A very interesting paper on “Differentiating Noisy Non-Smooth Data” and a nice online text book for doing Forecasting using R examples. Continue reading →

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