tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6168620747792092240.post7753387849572145020..comments2024-03-17T20:10:54.095-06:00Comments on Wasatch Weather Weenies: Intricacies of Local Temperature Trends, Part IIJim Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15799757451626876963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6168620747792092240.post-63622416164302554832013-07-26T18:55:34.932-06:002013-07-26T18:55:34.932-06:00This is a difficult thing to sort out. If you plo...This is a difficult thing to sort out. If you plot other stations in Utah on the xmACIS2 site, many of them rural where you'd perhaps expect less land cover change, they show a lot of variability in min temperature trends...some up, some down, some nearly constant. I wonder how representative the SLC airport is of northern Utah and how good the quality is of other stations in Utah. You'd probably need a lot of high quality stations from around the country to get sample sizes large enough to separate out these effects, but it would be difficult.Adam Varblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991968453822376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6168620747792092240.post-7832570516490597532013-07-26T13:58:41.180-06:002013-07-26T13:58:41.180-06:00It might be interesting to do a sensitivity study ...It might be interesting to do a sensitivity study with a limited area micro-scale model that includes an interactive biosphere parameterization (transpiration from vegetation) that can be turned on and off. You could run an experiment with little vegetation and ground water values as observed west of the city and then another simulation with present day vegetation and present day observed ground water. That would be interesting and might add insight. Of course, you'd need some sort of planetary boundary (PBL) layer parameterization as well where the PBL responds to radiative forcing.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15180331785357345922noreply@blogger.com