A Method for Estimating Missing Hourly Temperatures Using Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures

Abstract

USAFETAC's Engineering Meteorology Section (USAFETAC/ECE) asked USAFETAC/DNO to develop a method for estimating missing hourly temperatures for locations that report only maximum and minimum temperatures, such as those in the NOAA Climatological Data (CD). USAFETAC/ECE required such a temperature estimation technique before they could calculate cooling degree hours (CDH) for stations at which only maximum and minimum temperatures were reported. This study is an extension of work documented by USAFETAC/PR-90/006, Short-Term Hourly Temperature Interpolation, by Maj Walter F. Miller, December 1990. In his study, Miller described a method for interpolating hourly temperatures when less than 6 consecutive hours of data were missing. Input temperature data, the same for both studies, was taken from stations in different climates to test the temperature filling methods adequately.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA240394

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