Temperature Monitoring Station:
KOWANYAMA AIRPORT

Monthly Mean Temperature Data

Raw Data relative to Expected Monthly Means

Difference from Regional Expectation

Breakpoint Adjusted Annual Average Comparison

Mean Rate of Change ( °C / Century )

Raw monthly anomalies		0.30
After quality control		0.36
After breakpoint alignment		0.94
Regional expectation during same months		1.09 ± 0.24
National average during same months		1.72 ± 0.19
Global land average during same months		2.50 ± 0.10

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 0.9	0.86
After Quality Control	± 0.9	0.87
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 0.8	0.90

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	39
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	39
Extreme local outliers	0
Regional climatology outliers	0
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	0
Frame shift repetitions	19
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	57

Station ID Codes

GHCND	ASN00029038
GHCNM	50194268000
GSOD	942680-99999
USAF	942680
WMO	94268
WMSSC	942680

ID codes may be repeated if the identification of the station changed during its history or if two different records were found to contain the same data, in which case the records would be merged.