Time to go do some science

NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center has a request for data out, one which gives anyone near water who can read a thermometer a chance to do some science.  There's a science history behind why this is a request and I'll give my own, biased, view of that.All data have errors and are messy.  Though George Box's comment is often repeated at modelers ("All models are wrong, some models are useful.") it is equally applicable to data and data analysis.  All data are wrong, some […]