#Temperature Accuracy Analysts

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#Temperature Accuracy Analysts

• How many circles are between the temp min and temp max of a noaa station? How many are not?

• Plots of Temperature NOAA, Temperature circle as a function of time for some circles

• Plot (T_NOAA-T_circle)

• Temperature Measurement Goodness with Interchangeable Metric
  ----- Example Metric. Will says we should consider something like dT=sqrt( (T_N,min-TC,min)^2+(T_N,max-TC_max)^2). -- This would be a measure of how far off the NOAA data and Circle data differ. The squares are because we care about magnitude of difference, not sign of difference. Then we define a range that we will say is "good". Example If dT< 5 we mark the circle as good for that year
  ---- plot these on a map with the outliers in one color and the good stations in another color to see if there is any geographic clustering for "good" vs "bad"
  ---- Note on Building the Notebook Will believes that the best thing we can do for audubon is to pass them a notebook to allow them to easily define the metrics and range on if the Temperature for each circle is within an defined metric. So when we do this analysis and build our metrics and ranges, we should construct the notebook such that it is easy for us and Audubon to switch out these values. Pretty similar to how we define static variables at the top of our notebooks for file names.

• Provide an opinion to this statement: CBC volunteers are NOT good resources for temperature data.

• Optional: Have Metric and Threshold analysis Breakdown by Ecosystem

• Optional: Have Metric and Threshold analysis Breakdown by set distance threshold

Deliverable

• Deliverable for the Audubon society will be a list of circles but we think the data is accurate.

• FAQ Sections
  ----- What is happening in the 20 - 70 with temp?

----- Some of the min_temps that have errors look like they are cases where the circle value is listed as 0. Is it possible that this was either a data entry error, or when someone left it blank, it somehow got a zero filled in?

Notes:
Only use CBC circles that have NOAA stations attached