| | Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Friday, 27 August 1999 |
 | | However, I note that the majority of the 129 stations listed to generate standard hour obs are manned stations. |
 | | Anyway, you find that the errors of representativeness associated with surface temperature observations are very large, so these are generally not used when generating model analyses, as the information they provide is usually inferior to the model guess itself. |
 | | That is the timing of Australian surface temp obs has none or at most negligible impact on the models - this is because these data are not used, or if they are they are given a very small weight, recognizing their large errors of representativeness. |
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