Introduction
Historical weather observations were recorded using a nonstandard methodology, and therefore require rigorous screening and correction routines to extract the highest quality weather data that are also compatible with modern observations. While standard techniques are difficult to implement on these data, careful screening and correction can proceed in a series of small steps. Historical Observation (HOB) Tools is a collection of techniques used to aid in the recovery of historical climate data for Kansas (Burnette 2009; Burnette and Stahle 2013b). The current state of HOB Tools is not meant to be a final solution, but instead a first step of many toward synthesizing the helpful routines used in the recovery and reanalysis of historical climate records. HOB Tools is an open source project, licensed under the GNU General Public License (see below).
Outline of this User's Guide
Uninstalling HOB Tools
The HOB Tools setup program uses Windows Installer technology. You can uninstall HOB Tools by doing the following (depending on the version of Windows):
HOB Tools Setup will then run and completely remove the program from your computer.
GNU General Public License
This file is part of HOB Tools. HOB Tools is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. HOB Tools is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HOB Tools. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Acknowledgements
The development of this program has benefited enormously from discussions with my Ph.D. dissertation committee: Dr. David Stahle, Dr. Cary Mock, Dr. Elliott West, and Dr. Malcolm Cleaveland. Dr. Cary Mock and Dr. Michael Chenoweth were particularly helpful in challenging me every step of the way to think very carefully about the quality of daily historical climate data. Some of the techniques that they have used in much of their work have been incorporated into HOB Tools. Feedback and bug reports from Rebecca Rowland, Matt Taylor, and Brad Johnson have also improved this program. Work on this project was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Geography and Regional Science Program (DDRI Grant BCS-0622894).
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