Comments on: Downloading Monthly Mean Australian Temperatures from the BoM

By: Tonis-Zoo Katzen Hunde Futter Pferde Reptilien Fische Mäuse Meerschweinchen

Tonis-Zoo Katzen Hunde Futter Pferde Reptilien Fische Mäuse Meerschweinchen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:20:05 +0000

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By: davids99us

davids99us — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:05:42 +0000

The usual approach is to define level 0, level 1, etc data according to the degree of manipulation. Creating contiguous data ups the levels. What KMNI has done is really great. Need more of it. Cheers

By: davids99us

davids99us — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:05:42 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:05:00 +0000

The usual approach is to define level 0, level 1, etc data according to the degree of manipulation. Creating contiguous data ups the levels.

What KMNI has done is really great. Need more of it. Cheers

By: sherro

sherro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:06:21 +0000

Well I need some stinkin' bar graphs but I need to design them.There is a problem with monthly data sets being prepared at BOM and that problem is missing data. It's almost as if those with something to contribute to method need to get together to resolve an agreed in fill method that is transparent and portable. In filling does not change the sense of the data much, mostly, but it makes working with the data far more tedious. It also encourages multiple users to devise their own infills, some of which are not reproducible by others. So there are increasingly more versions getting around in the literature and not all of them can be correct.Yes, I'd very much like tabulation of monthly Tmax and T min at as many stations as practical.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Well I need some stinkin’ bar graphs but I need to design them.

There is a problem with monthly data sets being prepared at BOM and that problem is missing data. It’s almost as if those with something to contribute to method need to get together to resolve an agreed in fill method that is transparent and portable. In filling does not change the sense of the data much, mostly, but it makes working with the data far more tedious. It also encourages multiple users to devise their own infills, some of which are not reproducible by others. So there are increasingly more versions getting around in the literature and not all of them can be correct.

Yes, I’d very much like tabulation of monthly Tmax and T min at as many stations as practical.

By: davids99us

davids99us — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:34:52 +0000

Yeah, we don't need no stinkin' bar graphs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:34:00 +0000

Yeah, we don’t need no stinkin’ bar graphs.

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:08:48 +0000

DAvid, if you want to extract Aus monthly mean data, here's a script that scrapes it. AusInfo is an information sheet (now at CA) listing the 103 stations in the monthly webpages with id numbers. get.bom scrapes the data into a time series using the id (character). I HATE these JAva pages that these guys waste money on.source(“http://www.climateaudit.org/scripts/station/australia/functions.bom.txt”) station= get.bom(id=AusInfo$id[i])

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:08:00 +0000

DAvid, if you want to extract Aus monthly mean data, here’s a script that scrapes it. AusInfo is an information sheet (now at CA) listing the 103 stations in the monthly webpages with id numbers. get.bom scrapes the data into a time series using the id (character). I HATE these JAva pages that these guys waste money on.

source(“http://www.climateaudit.org/scripts/station/australia/functions.bom.txt”)
station= get.bom(id=AusInfo$id[i])