NOAA explains that station moves, instrument changes, observing-protocol changes, and land-use changes can create non-climatic shifts, and documents automated homogenization and adjusted and unadjusted data.
For this reason, detecting and accounting for artifacts associated with changes in observing practice is an important and necessary part of building climate datasets.
Dataset documentation
NOAA explains that station moves, instrument changes, observing-protocol changes, and land-use changes can create non-climatic shifts, and documents automated homogenization and adjusted and unadjusted data. Bearing on the claim: supports. Verification note: Federal HTML documentation; no direct PDF verified.