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Evaluate temperature disaggregation in polar regions #210

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@arbennett

While reviewing #208 I made some plots to see how the temperature disaggregation looked, and think maybe some further heuristics could create more physically realistic temperature timeseries. For this test I just used some temperature data for another location and set the latitude to 75. This explains the larger than realistic diurnal temperature ranges, but was just used for exploration.

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From the figure we can see that during both periods a very sharp temperature gradient is set either mid-day or end-of-day, which may not be realistic. Two other options seem like reasonable alternatives:

  1. Set the temperature disaggregation so that during these periods is as smooth as possible, but with the relative times of min/max temperature flipped between all daylight and no daylight periods
  2. Use the solar angle as a guide for when min/max temperatures should occur. This may not make sense in the case of no-daylight since the solar angle will always be negative, but keeps the transition consistent between time periods.

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