How not to measure Temperature, part 46. Reno’s USHCN Station

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In wondering about just how this placement between runways on a darker surface environment might contribute to the upward trend in the GISS temperature graph shown above, I did some searching online and soon discovered that NOAA uses Reno’s placement problems as an example in a training manual for climate monitoring COOP managers. They’d already done all the work for me! More on that internal NOAA training manual later, as it has provided a wealth of information previously undisclosed.

What was amazing is that they’d already determined that there were significant problems with this USHCN station placement that contributed a significant warming bias to the record.