Here are the details of the first surfacestations.org paper

Fall, S., A. Watts, J. Nielsen-Gammon, E. Jones, D. Niyogi, J. Christy, and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2011: Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends. J. Geophys. Res., in press. Copyright (2011) American Geophysical Union.


Resources:

The paper: Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends. (PDF) Link to the paper, Fall et al 2011 here

Media Resource: Summary of Fall et al, 2011 (PDF)

Supplemental information: data files and code used

Programs required for SI data and programs

  • Microsoft Excel 2003 or equivalent (open Office 3.3)
  • Enthought python distribution (http://code.enthought.com), run in the pylab environment.  Specific version:
    Python 2.6.5 |EPD 6.2-2 (32-bit)| (r265:79063, May 28 2010, 15:13:03) 

SI Data file:  Data and Python code (ZIP file here 36.5 MB)