Large Data Set Flashcards
Type of variable is temperature
Continuous
Discrete data
To 1dp
Countries
Heathrow Leeming Leuchars Camborne Hurn Jacksonville Beijing Perth
Where is leuchars
Nearly by Scotland
Where is leeming
Midlands of England
Camborne
Near lands end Cornwall
Where is hurn
Near Sussex
Dates
May-October 1987
May-October 2015
How many days
183
N/a
Reading which isn’t available
Trace or tr of rainfall
Rain less than 0.05mm
Instrument used to measure temperature
Thermometers in a louvered screen 1.25m above shirt grass
Sunshine amounts is recorded in
Hours and tenths
Daily max relative humidity is a measure of
How close the air is to being saturated with water vapour
Humidities above 95%
Mist and fog
Wind speed measured in
Knots
1 knot =
1.15mph
Daily
Measured over a 24hour period and averaged
Daily max gust speed measures
Max instantaneous speed
Daily mean wind direction is rounded to
Nearest 10 degrees
Speed of wind is categorised according to
The Beaufort scale
What is cloud cover
Fraction of the celestial dome covered by cloud
Cloud cover measured in
Eighths / oktas
Visibility is
Greatest distance at which an object can be seen and recognized in daylight
OR
At night could be seen and recognised if the general illumination were raised to daylight level
