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Evidence of singularities in radiosonde data for Rapid City, South Dakota
Author(s) -
Dennis A. S.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709339812
Subject(s) - radiosonde , gravitational singularity , arctic , variance (accounting) , the arctic , environmental science , meteorology , geography , climatology , mathematics , geology , oceanography , mathematical analysis , accounting , business
A search for singularities in the weather at Rapid City, South Dakota is described. It differs from previous investigations of singularities in two respects : (i) the use of pressure and temperature data from radiosondes, and (ii), the application of analysis‐of‐variance techniques to departures of weekly means from fitted annual trends. These analyses lead to the rejection of the hypothesis that there are no weekly singularities in the climatic elements studied. The singularities are tentatively ascribed to week‐to‐week variations in the probability of Arctic outbreaks into the Great Plains region.