Serially Complete Sequences of Hourly Temperatures for Three Saudi Arabian Stations

Abstract

Serially completed sets of hourly temperatures have been produced for the three Saudi Arabian stations Riyadh, Dhahran, Qaisumah for the ten year period; January 1981 to December 1990. Daily maxima and minima which can occur between hourly observations are included. Following a brief survey of the Saudi Arabian climate (Section 2), methods used for original data quality control and data fill-in procedures (Section 3). Sections 4 to 6 contain ten tables per station. These tables include the five-day, monthly, annual means and extremes, and frequency distributions of hourly temperatures. For Qaisumah, nine averaged diurnal temperature cycles are provided. After comparing the monthly extremes with published data and other reference material, it is concluded that the ten year temperature series are representative of Saudi Arabian temperature range encompassed by the three stations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA254190

Entities

People

  • Dorathy A. Stewart
  • Helmut P. Dudel
  • Larry J. Levitt

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Classification
  • Climate
  • Climate Change
  • Dew Point
  • High Temperature
  • Low Temperature
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Quality Control
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Surface Temperature
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Library and Information Science
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.