The distributions of daily maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at McGill Observatory during the 88 year period from August 1874 to July 1962 have been analysed. The following main features emerge: 1) The frequency distributions (as judged by plots on arithmetic probability paper) fall into four well defined categories. A summer type corresponds to a normal distribution of temperatures. A winter type corresponds to a skew distribution, and transition types occur in the spring and the fall. 2) The interquartile range for both the maximum and minimum temperatures is highest in mid-winter and lowest in mid-summer, with secondary minima occurring in the spring and the fall.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115230 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Sabourin, Georges. |
| Contributors | Marshall, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Earth Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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