Poster: A snowHead
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One of my ecological colleagues is initiating a new research project. This requires that he have reliable climate data for Scottish mountains: in particular, records of maximum and minimum temperatures recorded throughout the year.
Naturally, I thought that a Snowhead would know where to go to find this information.
Can anyone point me at a useful website, or alternative source of data?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I would recommend a call to the Met Office. Although they have been forced to go down the commercial route, they do do research and may have the data available (well, I know the data's there as I've input it into their database).
Other people to try are Geoff Monks, the WMO and Reading University Met. department. It may be on the web somewhere, but I reckon it'd be in summary form.
(Now watch while someone finds the dataset on a website )
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Heriot Watt University has had a weather station on the summit of Cairngorm for some time, so I'm sure they can help. Here's a link.
You could also post this enquiry on the Winterhighland site, where lots of knowledgeable Scottish mountain people dwell.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yeah, the Met Office site has summary information. I'm hoping that there's some directly web-accessible data somewhere.
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Thanks, everyone for your rapid and helpful responses. I think my mate has now found what he's looking for.
If, in the next couple of years, you come across someone on their hands and knees in the Highlands, exami ning a vanishingly small plant through a hand lens, you'll know who it is!
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