Unanswered Questions
76 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there any measured atmospheric temperature profile made public?
I'm looking for a temperature-with-altitude measurement by a sounding rocket having gone through the tropo, strato- and mesosphere, have any such results been published after temperatures were ...
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Dynamic frontogenesis derivation
On page 142 of Lackmann's Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology, Equation 6.7 gives the derivative of the Boussinesq buoyancy $b = \frac{g \theta'}{\theta_0 (z)}$ (perturbation potential temperature $\...
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Beam forming FK analysis of a seismic wave
So after reading alot of literature on source localization, I found out that FK analysis is one of the most widely used methods to determine source location without explicitly calculating the ...
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What 3-day smoke forecasts are height-resolved?
In order to accurately perform weather forecasts during large wildfire events, weather models must include the smoke. Smoke reflects sunlight back to space, decreasing the light absorbed by the ...
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What are the advantages of analyzing temperature in Kelvin?
I have air temperature data from reanalysis that I want to analyze. The reanalysis data is in Kelvin, so I'm wondering why they use Kelvin. Is there any advantage or difference in analyzing ...
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How can I analyze how environmental conditions are related among different sites?
I want to analyze how the environmental conditions along the migratory route of a bird are related to the environmental conditions found at the breeding ground (which it is at high latitudes and we ...
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Trewartha climate classification overlap?
By my reading of the wikipedia page on the Trewartha climate classification, climate classifications are not mutually exclusive. Let's take a look at the climate classification of Iowa City, IA. The ...
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Base temperature value for European Nordic Countries
I am calculating Heating Degree Days and Cooling Degree Days for European Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). On a paper (Benestad 2008) I read that ...
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What is the most optimal latitude on Earth for the generation of extreme maximum temperatures?
First question on this StackExchange, so here goes... Overall, reaching high temperatures is dependent on 2 factors: The (maximum) solar angle in the day. The greater the solar angle, the more ...
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What are the coldest and hottest ever recorded temperatures at the stratopause?
The stratopause is separating the stratosphere from the mesosphere around 47-53 km (29-33 mi) altitude. Standard atmosphere models give its temperature as minus 2.5°C, but how strong are its ...
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Best method for weather station data interpolation with external parameters
I'm part of an organization maintaning a large network of weather stations (~3000 stations) over a European country. Besides storing data measured from the stations into a database, we also produce ...
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How does the lack of data about the Mesosphere affect our predictive knowledge of the atmosphere?
Out of all the layers of the Earth's atmosphere the Mesosphere is the hardest to collect data and experiment on, due to it's density being too much for satellites and too little for aircraft or ...
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What is the best way to check for technical validity of climate data?
I processed a lot of modeled climate data from CMIP and I want to check that I have not made any errors. I think the best way to do this is to somehow evaluate the data I produced geographically ...
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How to calculate mean annual maximum temperatures from monthly temperature values?
Apologies, this is a simple question. But I just want to make sure I am calculating the mean, annual maximum temperatures correctly. I have monthly temperature data from 1980 - 2019. In order to get ...
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Looking for the climate classification for a particular climate
我在找气候分类中the many different climate classification systems covering my absolute favorite form of climate. If a classification for this doesn't exist, and you ...