I’ve finally uploaded the early years’ weather data (about 350mb) to my shell account, which took about three hours this morning. I’ve processed it and so now I’ve a complete set of averages, about 280000 station-years.
I can use this with the country station list/distances to determine the set of stations in each year – something like
join AfricaStations.txt Average-1969.txt -t',' -o1.3 | sort
will get me the distances (3rd field in the first file, so 1.3) for all the stations active in 1969 in order of distance. Then I just need to get the order statistics and graph the result to get the answers for Proposition 01.
For Proposition 02, I can use the same station-year average temperature list, sorted by station, to extract and check the warmest years. I think that will need some Perl…
Tags: data, proposition 01, proposition 02, weather