Temperature Monitoring Station:
MADISON/DANE COUNTY REGIONAL WI.

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		0.51
After quality control		0.50
After breakpoint alignment		1.01
Regional expectation during same months		1.06 ± 0.17
National average during same months		0.85 ± 0.14
Global land average during same months		0.95 ± 0.06

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.2	0.96
After Quality Control	± 1.2	0.96
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.0	0.98

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	1
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	1
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	1

Station ID Codes

COOP	474961
COOP	474966
FAA	MSN
GHCND	USC00474966
GHCND	USW00014837
GHCND	USW00094811
GHCNM	42572641000
GSOD	726410-14837
GSOD	999999-14837
GSOD	999999-14887
HADCRU	726410
ICAO	KMSN
NCDC	20020986
NCDC	20020992
NWS	MSN
USAF	726410
WBAN	14837
WBAN	14887
WBAN	94811
WMO	72641
WMSSC	726410
WWR	72641

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.