The fabrications by Wei-Chyung Wang pertain to 84 Chinese weather stations. Information about the histories of only 35 of those stations exists. Following is a summary of those 35 histories.
The station histories below concern 1954–1983: those are the years that Wang claimed to analyze. The first column is the number of the weather station (assigned by the World Meteorological Organization). The second column indicates whether or not the station moved during 1954–1983, and if so, how far away (in km). A “?” in the second column indicates a station history that is too inconsistent to draw conclusions with confidence.
Each item in the first column links to a copy of the station history. Each item in the second column links to a map of the area of the station locations. (The maps show the areas as they were c. 2000, not 1954–1983.) The third column contains notes; in particular, a few stations moved after the first year: this is noted, but not otherwise considered.
| 50745 | ||
| 50953 | Two moves; last location probably same as first. |
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| 51463 | Likely three moves; last location same as first. |
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| 52866 | ||
| 52889 | Possibly three locations. |
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| 53463 | — |
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| 53772 | Three locations, first possibly for one year. |
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| 54161 | — |
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| 54342 | ? |
One move, possibly unchanged coordinates. |
| 54511 | Five locations. |
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| 54527 | There was a move of 4 km after the first year. |
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| 54662 | Apparently three locations. |
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| 54823 | ? |
Possibly one move of 1 km. |
| 54857 | ||
| 56294 | ||
| 56778 | — |
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| 57036 | ||
| 57083 | There was a move of 7 km after the first year. |
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| 57127 | ||
| 57461 | Probably three locations. |
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| 57494 | Third location was for less than a year. |
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| 57516 | — |
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| 57679 | Three or four locations, last for under one year. |
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| 57816 | ? |
Possibly one move of 2 km. |
| 58027 | Four locations. |
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| 58144 | Three locations. |
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| 58238 | ? |
Likely one move. |
| 58367 | ||
| 58457 | Four locations. |
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| 58606 | ? |
Likely one move of 9 km. |
| 58659 | ? |
Likely one move. |
| 58847 | — |
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| 59287 | ||
| 59316 | ? |
Likely one move. |
| 59431 | Three locations. |
If a station had more than two locations, the distance shown is the greatest between locations. The station histories specify the station locations to within an arcminute; thus the error in calculating the distances will usually be under 1 km, and at most 2 km. The stations listed here were (reasonably) classified as urban by Wang, except #57127 and #58144.
Jones P. (2007), Data Used in the Jones et al. (1990) Publication. [This lists the meteorological stations used by Jones et al. [Nature, 1990]. The same Chinese stations were used by Wang et al. [Geophysical Research Letters, 1990]. There are at least two typographical errors in the list: 53161 should be 54161 and 55606 should be 58606.]
Tao Shiyan, Fu Congbin, Zeng Zhaomei, Zhang Qingyun (1997), Two Long-Term Instrumental Climatic Data Bases of the People’s Republic of China, ORNL/CDIAC-47, NDP-039 (Oak Ridge TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory). [This report resulted from a joint research project by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Energy. Table 1 from the report contains the data used herein. The first version of the report was published in 1991; its Appendix B is the same as Table 1 here.]
