Temperature Monitoring Station:
MINOT EXPERIMENT STN

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		2.02
After quality control		1.99
After breakpoint alignment		1.34
Regional expectation during same months		1.22 ± 0.09
National average during same months		0.89 ± 0.09
Global land average during same months		1.12 ± 0.02

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.9	0.95
After Quality Control	± 1.9	0.95
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.7	0.96

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	3
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	4
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	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	4

Station ID Codes

COOP	325980
COOP	325988
COOP	325993
FAA	MOT
GHCND	USC00325993
GHCND	USW00024013
GHCNM	42572765005
GSOD	727676-24013
GSOD	999999-24013
GSOD	999999-94091
ICAO	KMOT
NCDC	20014367
NCDC	20014370
NCDC	20014374
NWS	MNON8
NWS	MOT
USAF	727676
WBAN	24013
WBAN	94091

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.