Temperature Monitoring Station:
HARRISBURG DISPOSAL PLANT

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		-0.64
After quality control		-0.64
After breakpoint alignment		0.65
Regional expectation during same months		0.70 ± 0.13
National average during same months		0.87 ± 0.11
Global land average during same months		1.04 ± 0.04

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.5	0.93
After Quality Control	± 1.5	0.93
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.1	0.96

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	9
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	9
Extreme local outliers	0
Regional climatology outliers	0
Abrupt jumps	2
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	2
Frame shift repetitions	1
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	13

Station ID Codes

COOP	113879
COOP	113884
GHCND	USC00113879
GHCND	USC00113884
GHCNM	42500113879
GHCNM	42572435004
HADCRU	751080
NCDC	10003350
NCDC	10100250
NCDC	20005575
NCDC	20005576
NCDC	20005579
NWS	HSBI2
NWS	SBI22

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.