% This file contains a station summary listing for a temperature % station in the Berkeley Earth database. This station is identified as: % % Berkeley ID#: 4940 % Primary Name: NEWCASTLE WATERS POST OFFICE % Record Type: TAVG % Country: Australia % Latitude: -17.38330 +/- 0.00005 % Longitude: 133.40000 +/- 0.00005 % Elevation (m): 210.00 +/- 0.50 % # of Months: 198 % % IDs: ghcnd - ASN00015089 % % Sources: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily % % Site Hash: dcb93b96de5ea592139e35d222e7fa6c % Raw Data Hash: 754abc9fee523e90d1d7895dbc5ed934 % Adj Data Hash: f4e72779b5e957951358569b876400d0 % % 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 1962 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 28.435 -0.192 1962 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 26.134 -0.531 1962 5 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 22.961 -0.369 1962 6 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 22.597 1.880 1962 7 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 20.870 0.779 1962 8 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 21.464 -0.758 1962 9 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 25.251 -0.404 1962 10 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 30.039 0.953 1962 11 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 31.947 1.172 1962 12 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 31.920 1.019 1963 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 30.145 0.040 1963 2 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 28.751 -0.642 1963 3 31.192 2.471 1 0 NaN NaN 29.428 0.802 1963 4 26.800 0.040 0 0 26.555 -0.205 25.930 -0.735 1963 5 23.961 0.536 0 0 23.781 0.356 22.873 -0.457 1963 6 21.052 0.240 0 0 20.880 0.068 20.401 -0.316 1963 7 20.302 0.116 0 0 20.102 -0.084 19.227 -0.863 1963 8 22.542 0.225 0 0 22.340 0.023 21.694 -0.528 1963 9 25.465 -0.285 0 0 25.291 -0.459 24.685 -0.970 1963 10 28.832 -0.349 0 0 28.667 -0.515 28.337 -0.750 1963 11 30.656 -0.213 0 0 30.465 -0.404 30.727 -0.047 1963 12 32.882 1.885 1 0 NaN NaN 31.777 0.875 1964 1 29.485 -0.715 0 0 29.227 -0.973 29.440 -0.665 1964 2 31.052 1.564 0 0 30.756 1.268 30.621 1.228 1964 3 29.226 0.505 0 0 28.926 0.205 28.496 -0.130 1964 4 28.067 1.307 0 0 27.821 1.062 27.690 1.025 1964 5 23.984 0.559 0 0 23.803 0.378 23.906 0.575 1964 6 20.000 -0.812 0 0 19.829 -0.983 20.278 -0.439 1964 7 20.721 0.536 0 0 20.521 0.336 20.814 0.724 1964 8 22.647 0.330 0 0 22.445 0.128 22.554 0.332 1964 9 28.102 2.352 0 0 27.928 2.178 27.356 1.701 1964 10 29.890 0.709 0 0 29.725 0.543 29.413 0.326 1964 11 31.240 0.371 0 0 31.049 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