Temperature Monitoring Station:
BELMAR NJ/SIG CORPS EVANS LAB

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		2.41
After quality control		2.33
After breakpoint alignment		1.93
Regional expectation during same months		1.99 ± 0.24
National average during same months		1.70 ± 0.12
Global land average during same months		1.76 ± 0.09

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 2.5	0.76
After Quality Control	± 1.9	0.85
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.9	0.84

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	50
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	19
Extreme local outliers	2
Regional climatology outliers	1
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	0
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	57

Station ID Codes

FAA	BLM
GHCND	USW00004739
GHCND	USW00004783
GHCNM	42572409003
GSOD	724084-04739
GSOD	724084-54760
GSOD	724084-99999
GSOD	749022-99999
GSOD	999999-04739
GSOD	999999-04783
GSOD	999999-54760
ICAO	BLM
ICAO	KBLM
NCDC	20018834
NCDC	20018836
NCDC	20018972
USAF	724084
USAF	749022
WBAN	4739
WBAN	4783
WBAN	54760

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.