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Climate-Mood-Analysis/docs/reviews/04-extreme-temperature-days.md
KnouandClaude Opus 5 867a07cecb Refine project documentation and track metric files
Close gaps found in a review of the documentation:
- Track data/metrics/ and data/metric_sources.json in git so the data
  checker passes on a fresh clone (finding 23; decision logged)
- State the Alaska and Hawaii coverage gap in the README limitations and
  extend finding 12
- File findings 24-26: the data-sources doc lacks gridMET and several
  pipeline commands; wettest/driest month are computed twice; solar GHI
  is written by the extreme-temperature apply step
- Add the stale "fallback values" note to filter 2's tasks

Tidy the document system:
- Add docs/reviews/README.md with the numbering rules and a finding index
- Rename koppen-mixed-display-plan.md to koppen-mixed-display.md and fix
  its stale Puerto Rico and "stage 5" text
- Add the precipitation-month step to the README enrichment list
- Describe the Current method / Previous method pattern in plan section 5
- Add CLAUDE.md with the project guardrails and doc layout

Format filter-calculations.md so it renders on GitHub and in VS Code:
inline math uses $...$, ranges use en dashes, and implementation
references name functions instead of line numbers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 17:31:26 -04:00

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Filter 4: Extreme temperature days

Status: Not started.

Data key: absoluteExtremeDays. Calculation: filter-calculations.md §4.

Findings

5. Extreme-day counts are not completeness-normalized. A partially observed year contributes a raw count and receives the same weight as a complete year. Consider requiring a minimum number of valid days or annualizing partial counts explicitly.

6. The absolute-extreme metric depends on unrelated percentile thresholds. build_annual_counts skips a county when its retired local p95/p05 thresholds are missing, even though the active 95 °F / 0 °F calculation does not require those percentiles. The absolute calculation should be separated from that prerequisite.

18. The data-sources doc describes the retired locally extreme metric. Source 5 in scripts/county_data_sources.md is headed locallyExtremeDays and says apply_locally_extreme_metric_to_climate_data.py writes the locally extreme average into extremeDays, keeps oldExtremeDays, and adds eight detail and audit columns. None of those columns is in data/climate-data.csv, and the script's docstring says locally percentile-based metrics are not included in the app CSV.

Cross-filter findings that affect this filter, in 00-cross-filter.md: 12 (Alaska and Hawaii not covered), 13 (Lexington, VA blank), 17 (missing from the data-sources metric list), and 26 (this filter's apply step also writes solar GHI).

Decisions

None yet.

Tasks

Not started; follow the per-filter review checklist in pipeline-plan.md §5.