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Regional Temperature Trends & Variations In The Contiguous United States From 1935 To 1986, Fahad Alkolibi
Regional Temperature Trends & Variations In The Contiguous United States From 1935 To 1986, Fahad Alkolibi
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The temperature trends and variations of the contiguous United States as a whole and ten designated regions were investigated from 1935 to 1986. To obtain reliable results, 263 stations of the Historical Climate Network (HCN) were used. The HCN stations are corrected for many non-climatic factors which may bias the data. The data for the contiguous United States reveals that the annual, summer, and winter temperatures are free of clear positive or negative trends. Unlike the annual and summer data, winter temperatures exhibit relatively strong variations.
Each region was then studyed individually. The summer temperatures for all the ten regions …