% This file contains a station summary listing for a temperature % station in the Berkeley Earth database. This station is identified as: % % Berkeley ID#: 159045 % Primary Name: POSTMASBURG % Record Type: TAVG % Country: South Africa % Latitude: -28.33924 +/- 0.00674 % Longitude: 23.07290 +/- 0.00640 % Elevation (m): 1321.00 +/- 0.05 % # of Months: 182 % % IDs: ghcnd - SF003211100 % gsod - 684290-99999 % usaf - 684290 % wmo - 68429 % % Sources: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily % Global Summary of the Day % World Meteorological Organization Metadata % % Site Hash: 56eca2aed4f6c573ad372b55b10c1038 % Raw Data Hash: 9c101a716e2063973c2ab12fb5a04f74 % Adj Data Hash: 919ac7b898e138fba9b0037252699bcf % % The data for this station is presented below in several columns and in % several forms. The temperature values are reported as "raw", % "adjusted", and "regional expectation". % % The "raw" values reflect the observations as originally ingested by % the Berkeley Earth system from one or more originating archive(s). % These "raw" values may reflect the merger of more than one temperature % time series if multiple archives reported values for this location. % Alongside the raw data we have also provided a flag indicating which % values failed initial quality control checks. A further column % dates at which the raw data may be subject to continuity "breaks" % due to documented station moves (denoted "1"), prolonged measurement % gaps (denoted "2"), documented time of observation changes (denoted "3") % and other empirically determined inhomogeneities (denoted "4"). % % In many cases, raw temperature data contains a number of artifacts, % caused by issues such as typographical errors, instrumentation changes, % station moves, and urban or agricultural development near the station. % The Berkeley Earth analysis process attempts to identify and estimate % the impact of various kinds of data quality problems by comparing each % time series to neighboring series. At the end of the analysis process, % the "adjusted" data is created as an estimate of what the weather at % this location might have looked like after removing apparent biases. % This "adjusted" data will generally to be free from quality control % issues and be regionally homogeneous. Some users may find this % "adjusted" data that attempts to remove apparent biases more % suitable for their needs, while other users may prefer to work % with raw values. % % Lastly, we have provided a "regional expectation" time series, based % on the Berkeley Earth expected temperatures in the neighborhood of the % station. This incorporates information from as many weather stations as % are available for the local region surrounding this location. Note % that the regional expectation may be a systematically a bit warmer or % colder than the weather stations by a few degrees due to differences % in mean elevation and other local characteristics. % % For each temperature time series, we have also included an "anomaly" % time series that removes both the seasonality and the long-term mean. % These anomalies may provide an easier way of seeing changes through % time. % % Reported temperatures are in Celsius and reflect monthly averages. As % these files are intended to be summaries for convenience, additional % information, including more detailed flagging and metadata, may be % available in our whole data set files. % % The Berkeley Earth analysis was run on 15-Nov-2013 19:55:48 % % Raw Data QC Continuity Adjusted Data Regional Expectation % Year, Month, Temperature, Anomaly, Failed, Breaks, Temperature, Anomaly, Temperature, Anomaly 1997 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 21.595 -0.609 1997 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 15.479 -2.074 1997 5 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 12.153 -0.980 1997 6 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 9.533 -0.192 1997 7 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 10.145 0.451 1997 8 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 13.839 1.802 1997 9 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 19.073 2.323 1997 10 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 21.515 1.462 1997 11 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 22.631 -0.423 1997 12 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 26.479 1.676 1998 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 25.253 -0.229 1998 2 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 25.650 1.272 1998 3 23.745 2.002 0 0 23.597 1.854 23.569 1.365 1998 4 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