… The remainder of this section highlights the most notable methodological enhancements
and additions in the 1981–2010 Climate Normals compared to previous installments of this …

… The backbone of the stations used in the 1981-2010 Normals come from the US … as the US
Climate Reference Network are also included, however we do not report climate normals for …

… All parameters were calculated from a single, state-of-the-art dataset of daily observations,
taking care to produce normals that were as representative as possible of the full 1981–2010 …

… This article provides a brief overview of this new Hourly Climate Normals product from
NOAA. In particular, section 2 provides a description of the data and the station selection criteria …

… In the United States, the term normals is also commonly used in … Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) that describes … The new 1981–2010 set of NOAA’s climate normals are …

… is generally satisfied for the US climate-division data. One alternative [the optimal climate
normal (OCN)] is … using the results here as a starting point and (b) NOAA initiate a program for …

… climate normals every 10 years. Although some member countries do not update their climate
normals … -year average as the standard WMO climate normal. Given substantial evidence (…

… Estimating change points considerably degraded the accuracy of the specified climate
normals, and allowing nonzero pre-1975 slopes had an inconsequential effect on the …

… in the United States , and this practice has been continued in the 1981-2010 climate normals
as … The observations used for the 1981-2010 climate normals originated from the National …

… CRU and nearly all reanalyses find cooling in the northern high plains that is not found in
NOAA Climate Division trends. These NOAA trends are captured better by CRUTS401. …