USHCN 2.5 – Estimated Data Is Warming Data – USA 1945 to 1980

I’ve been posting on USHCN and the effect of “estimating” or “Infilling” on  the Final data.

Earlier today I showed that Estimating/Infilling made the 1980-2014 trend steeper upwards.

Now I will show the opposite: When the trend is down, infilling makes the trend steeper downwards.

I repeat … this is the Final data after all the other adjustments. About 15% of the data is Estimated from neighboring stations.

I will post all the monthly graphs … but just discuss the first – January.

The data is 1945 to 1980. So it covers a period of cooling.

The trend of REAL data is –0.58C/decade. That’s the 39,766 values referenced in the legend.

Then they add in about 15% Estimated data with a trend of  -0.79C/decade. That’s the 3987 values.

The net result is a new trend of -0.61C/decade.

Presto. Magic. A -0.58C trend is now a -0.61C trend.

Not a big change. But it is always there.  But the red line is almost always well above the others. Sometimes by 2C.

(Click on graphs for larger).