Please refer back to my first post for site specifications.
Station: Dartmouth Reservoir 82076
Opened: 1918
Daily Temperature data from: 1975
Data used to adjust Acorn sites at: Rutherglen
Location: Co-ordinates -36.5353 147.4984
About 250km north-east of Melbourne.
2014 BOM Site Plan:
2019 satellite image:
Road view:
Less than 10 metres from a bitumen road, 10 metres from a very large bitumen car park, one metre from the evaporation pan, with a large tree to the north, on a slope.
This station is not compliant. Its temperatures are reported at Latest Weather Observations, and are used to make adjustments at Acorn stations, but are unlikely to be reliable.
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Tags: Acorn, adjustments, Australia, bom, temperature, weather
August 9, 2019 at 6:34 am |
“unlikely to be reliable” ? Depends what your intentions are.
And from this series I really wonder why we employ a lot of Climatologists at the BoM (and elsewhere).
August 9, 2019 at 3:11 pm |
I wonder what the impact of those two deep lakes is on the weather records at Dartmouth. The water absorbs a huge amount of heat from the sunlight … And that tends to stabilise the temperature fluctuations. By the way this was noted in Canberra after Lake Burley Griffin was created in the 1960’s.