All participants meeting Jan 2014

Early in January a meeting of all groups involved in the initiative was held to discuss progress to date and future plans. The minutes from this meeting can be found here. The annual progress reports were discussed (more on this at months end). Also, new terms of reference were adopted for all groups (see the group pages at surfacetemperatures.org). The coming year promises many new, exciting, developments. Amongst others we expect to see:

• Release of the version 1 databank which will consist of c.32,000 stations
• Development and release of benchmarks
• A workshop held jointly with SAMSI and NCAR on developing novel approaches to dataset homogenization

 We will endeavour to announce major advances through this blog.