Temperature Monitoring Station:
CHINCOTEAGUE WILDLIFE REFUGE

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		-3.96
After quality control		-0.92
After breakpoint alignment		-0.75
Regional expectation during same months		-0.65 ± 0.23
National average during same months		0.51 ± 0.18
Global land average during same months		0.97 ± 0.09

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 4.2	0.54
After Quality Control	± 1.4	0.90
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.2	0.92

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	67
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	22
Extreme local outliers	11
Regional climatology outliers	10
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	1
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	2
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	67

Station ID Codes

COOP	441687
GHCND	USC00441687
GHCND	USW00013755
GHCNM	42572402002
GSOD	723089-13755
GSOD	999999-13755
ICAO	K0W8
NCDC	20027161
NCDC	20027162
NCDC	20027166
USAF	723089
WBAN	13755

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.