World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)
On 13 September 1922, a temperature of 58°C (136.4°F) was purportedly recorded at El Azizia (approximately 40 km south-southwest of Tripoli) in what is now modern-day Libya. That temperature record of 58°C has been cited by numerous world-record sources as the highest recorded temperature for the...
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ftopenaccessrep:oai:zenodo.org:173032 2024-05-12T08:04:38+00:00 World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922) El Fadli, Khalid I. Cerveny, Randall S. Burt, Christopher C. Eden, Philip Parker, David Brunet, Manola Peterson, Thomas C. Mordacchini, Gianpaolo Pelino, Vinicio Bessemoulin, Pierre Stella, José Luis Driouech, Fatima Wahab, M. M Abdel Pace, Matthew B. 2012-07-24 https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/173032 https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-12-00093.1 eng eng url:https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/itmirror https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/173032 doi:10.1175/bams-d-12-00093.1 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atmospheric Science info:eu-repo/semantics/article publication-article 2012 ftopenaccessrep https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-12-00093.1 2024-04-17T14:50:06Z On 13 September 1922, a temperature of 58°C (136.4°F) was purportedly recorded at El Azizia (approximately 40 km south-southwest of Tripoli) in what is now modern-day Libya. That temperature record of 58°C has been cited by numerous world-record sources as the highest recorded temperature for the planet. During 2010–11, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission of Climatology (CCl) special international panel of meteorological experts conducted an in-depth investigation of this record temperature for the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes (http://wmo.asu.edu/). This committee identified five major concerns with the 1922 El Azizia temperature extreme record, specifically 1) potentially problematical instrumentation, 2) a probable new and inexperienced observer at the time of observation, 3) unrepresentative microclimate of the observation site, 4) poor correspondence of the extreme to other locations, and 5) poor comparison to subsequent temperature values recorded at the site. Based on these concerns, the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes rejected this temperature extreme of 58°C as the highest temperature officially recorded on the planet. The WMO assessment is that the highest recorded surface temperature of 56.7°C (134°F) was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch (Death Valley), California. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository Greenland Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94 2 199 204 |
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On 13 September 1922, a temperature of 58°C (136.4°F) was purportedly recorded at El Azizia (approximately 40 km south-southwest of Tripoli) in what is now modern-day Libya. That temperature record of 58°C has been cited by numerous world-record sources as the highest recorded temperature for the planet. During 2010–11, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission of Climatology (CCl) special international panel of meteorological experts conducted an in-depth investigation of this record temperature for the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes (http://wmo.asu.edu/). This committee identified five major concerns with the 1922 El Azizia temperature extreme record, specifically 1) potentially problematical instrumentation, 2) a probable new and inexperienced observer at the time of observation, 3) unrepresentative microclimate of the observation site, 4) poor correspondence of the extreme to other locations, and 5) poor comparison to subsequent temperature values recorded at the site. Based on these concerns, the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes rejected this temperature extreme of 58°C as the highest temperature officially recorded on the planet. The WMO assessment is that the highest recorded surface temperature of 56.7°C (134°F) was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch (Death Valley), California. |
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El Fadli, Khalid I. Cerveny, Randall S. Burt, Christopher C. Eden, Philip Parker, David Brunet, Manola Peterson, Thomas C. Mordacchini, Gianpaolo Pelino, Vinicio Bessemoulin, Pierre Stella, José Luis Driouech, Fatima Wahab, M. M Abdel Pace, Matthew B. |
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World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922) |
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