% This file contains a station summary listing for a temperature % station in the Berkeley Earth database. This station is identified as: % % Berkeley ID#: 247 % Primary Name: DAMASCUS SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC % Record Type: TAVG % Country: Syria % Latitude: 33.50000 +/- 0.05000 % Longitude: 36.20000 +/- 0.05000 % Elevation (m): 729.00 +/- 0.50 % # of Months: 16 % % IDs: wmssc - 400790 % % Sources: World Monthly Surface Station Climatology % % Site Hash: f75733cb1f8c6decdc24701eb3f8c9de % Raw Data Hash: 36b7e8b81f95f8861e857874e72d9d52 % Adj Data Hash: 65d3beaaee95adeba032e61fd50b11e3 % % 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 1968 9 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 23.828 -0.728 1968 10 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 20.569 -0.819 1968 11 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 17.015 0.262 1968 12 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 12.691 0.694 1969 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 10.217 -0.211 1969 2 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 12.733 1.241 1969 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 15.059 1.408 1969 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 15.179 -1.652 1969 5 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 21.683 0.935 1969 6 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 25.525 1.321 1969 7 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 25.029 -0.975 1969 8 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 26.239 -0.115 1969 9 25.400 2.093 0 0 25.400 2.093 25.532 0.976 1969 10 19.500 -0.640 0 0 19.500 -0.640 21.282 -0.106 1969 11 13.600 -1.905 0 0 13.600 -1.905 16.480 -0.273 1969 12 9.800 -0.949 0 0 9.800 -0.949 12.874 0.877 1970 1 8.400 -0.779 0 0 8.400 -0.779 11.800 1.372 1970 2 10.200 -0.044 0 0 10.200 -0.044 12.802 1.310 1970 3 13.500 1.097 0 0 13.500 1.097 14.996 1.344 1970 4 18.900 3.318 0 0 18.900 3.318 18.486 1.656 1970 5 21.400 1.900 0 0 21.400 1.900 20.681 -0.067 1970 6 24.800 1.844 0 0 24.800 1.844 23.895 -0.309 1970 7 26.200 1.445 0 0 26.200 1.445 25.373 -0.631 1970 8 26.600 1.494 0 0 26.600 1.494 26.217 -0.137 1970 9 24.200 0.893 0 0 24.200 0.893 24.330 -0.226 1970 10 18.800 -1.340 0 0 18.800 -1.340 20.109 -1.280 1970 11 14.800 -0.705 0 0 14.800 -0.705 17.394 0.641 1970 12 6.400 -4.349 0 0 6.400 -4.349 10.223 -1.774 1971 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 12.870 2.442 1971 2 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 11.580 0.088 1971 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 13.919 0.268 1971 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 14.857 -1.973 1971 5 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 21.519 0.771 1971 6 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 23.821 -0.383 1971 7 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 24.870 -1.134 1971 8 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 26.002 -0.353 1971 9 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 24.730 0.174 1971 10 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 19.996 -1.392 1971 11 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 15.820 -0.933 1971 12 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 9.880 -2.117