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A Daily Temperature Record For Central Texas, 1896-2011, Matthew Kain Taylor
A Daily Temperature Record For Central Texas, 1896-2011, Matthew Kain Taylor
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A continuous record of 882,693 daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature measurements for seven weather stations in central Texas dating from August 1, 1896, to August 31, 2011, were screened and corrected for missing values and inhomogeneities. The resulting data were averaged to create a 115-year unbroken regional record of daily temperature for central Texas. This record indicates warming in daily, seasonal, and annual temperatures. Winter warm temperature extremes have increased over the period of record while warm temperature extremes during the summer months have remained largely unchanged. Summer heat wave days and the length of heat waves have increased …