Abstract: An adequate description of climate is required to meet the informational needs of planners and policy-makers who use climate as a factor in their decision-making processes. Because normals have become firmly entrenched as ...

Abstract: Regional and national heating fuel demand is related to both weather and population density. This study analyzes the variability of population-weighted, seasonal heating degree days for the coterminous 48 states. A risk ...

Abstract: Daily maximum and minimum temperature changes in January over 112 recorded years at Central Park, New York, were analyzed from a statistical viewpoint. The case study reveals that time series of mean and median changes are ...

Abstract: As part of a national study of water management during periods of drought, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is underwriting the preparation of a national drought atlas. One of the variables being analyzed for the atlas is ...

Abstract: Parametric probability distributions can be fit to a dataset by equating sample L moments to those Of the fitted distribution. This study examines the mean and mean squared departures of sample L moments of monthly ...

Abstract: The history of climatic divisions in the contiguous United States has been pieced together from fragmentary documentation. Each of the 48 contiguous states has been subdivided into climatic divisions. Divisional boundaries ...

Abstract: The published 1951?80 daily normals of maximum and minimum temperatures were prepared by interpolating between average monthly values. This study compares the published normal and 30-yr average daily temperatures in the ...

Abstract: Degree-hours have many applications in fields such as agriculture, architecture, and power generation. Since daily mean temperatures are more readily available than hourly temperatures, the difference between mean daily ...

Abstract: Radiosonde temperature and humidity data were used to deduce the vertical distribution of clouds and aircraft icing conditions near Washington, D.C. when low ceilings occurred with surface temperatures near freezing. ...

Abstract: The network of about 5600 cooperative stations in the United States provides the baseline temperature data upon which most climatologies are based. Since the data serve between 40 000 and 50 000 primary users each year, ...