[article] 
Changes in the frequency of record temperature in Australia, 1957-2009
Available online: http://www.bom.gov.au/amm/docs/2010/trewin.pdf
B. Trewin ; H. Vermont
in Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal (AMOJ) >
Vol.60 No.2 (June 2010) . - p.113-120
The temporal distribution of record high and low temperatures in Australia during
the 1957-2009 period has been investigated. Use has been made of two different
data-sets: station data of daily maximum and minimum temperatures at
stations drawn from the Australian high-quality daily temperature data-set, and
area-averaged anomalies of monthly maximum and minimum temperature for the
six Australian States and the Northern Territory.
For both data-sets, there is a marked tendency for low temperature records to
outnumber high temperature records in the early part of the period, and for high
temperature records to outnumber low temperature records in the later part of
the period, with the ratio of high to low temperature records mostly being below
0.5 to 1 in the 1957-66 decade and above 2 to 1 in the 1997-2009 period. Time series
of the difference between the numbers of high and low temperature records show
positive trends significant at the five per cent level for all cases examined.
An examination of the frequency of record-setting in area-averaged data, detrended
using the observed trends in mean annual Australian maximum and minimum
temperatures, suggest that the frequency of record-setting is broadly consistent
with the mean annual temperature trend for maximum temperatures, but for
minimum temperatures changes in the frequency of record-setting are somewhat
smaller than would be expected given the mean annual temperature trend.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Temperature anomaly ; Climate ; Climatology ; History ; Meteorology ; Australia 
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