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My, What Big Datasets You Have, Grandma NASA
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
Posted in NCDC - GHCN Issues, Tech Bits
Tagged data, Download, GHCN, NCDC, NOAA, SuperGHCNd
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Polk Co. Florida, Mosaic and GASP! Radiation!!!
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
Posted in NCDC - GHCN Issues
Tagged Fertilizer, Florida, Gypsum, Mosaic, Phosphate, Polk
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Pondering A Funding Campaign
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
CDIAC, Compression, Squashfs, And Oddities
Some “Lessons Learned” in making a compressed easy to search archive via squashfs file systems and temperature data file trees. Continue reading
Posted in AGW and GIStemp Issues, NCDC - GHCN Issues, Tech Bits
Tagged CDIAC, Global Warming, gzip, NCDC, NOAA, squashfs, unzip
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CDIAC Scrape Finished
The scrape of CDIAC has completed. Here I report on some sizes and such. Continue reading
Posted in AGW Science and Background, Earth Sciences, NCDC - GHCN Issues
Tagged Archive, CDIAC, data, Scrape, Temperature, USHCN, wget
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NOAA data scrape completes. At last.
A major part of the NOAA data scrape completes. Some sizes and what to expect if you do it. Continue reading
Smoothing Data and not Distorting Data
A very interesting paper on “Differentiating Noisy Non-Smooth Data” and a nice online text book for doing Forecasting using R examples. Continue reading
