The first Initiative progress report has been posted here . This details the acheivements, progress against agreed workplans, and any issues...

Continuing on from the theme of the last post the main paper of the COST Action HOME has been published today in Climate of the Past. Thi...

Firstly, an up-front caveat, I am third (last) author on this paper. Today the Journal of Geophysical Research has published a paper that...

The first peer-reviewed paper describing the end to end envisaged International Surface Temperature Initiative scope has been published this...

NCDC have just released version 3.1.0 of the GHCN product, detailed in a tech note , as documented in the dataset paper of their gl...

WCRP OSC was a very large conference, mainly poster based. The sheer volume of posters was over-whelming. Plenary talks were generally v...

Or acronym soup? For those who follow this effort and will be attending next week's WCRP OSC conference in Denver, Colorado, we will ...

I've just got back from presenting the work of the International Surface Temperature Initiative at both the 4th ACRE Workshop (Utrecht, ...

Things are also starting to take shape in revamping the website. Any comments on this and suggestions as to how to make surfacetemperatures....

We have today published an implementation plan for the initiative as a whole. The plan focuses primarily upon the steps necessary to comple...

The latest steering committee minutes are available along with a first version of their terms of reference . Forthcoming soon will be an Im...

A very initial version of the envisaged global surface databank is available from http://www.gosic.org/GLOBAL_SURFACE_DATABANK/GBD.html . It...

There are two new more working level blogs that have been set up recently. These are more technical discussion areas than this blog. Both al...

There is a data provenance and versioning task team for the databank effort - details are available from http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/...

Further details can be found here . For anyone wondering how they can help to improve the data holdings right now, you might want to take a ...

Notes are posted here . Comments welcome.

Notes are posted here . This provides an update of initial steps undertaken thus far.

The databank working group recently held their first teleconference. Notes arising from this are available here . Comments welcome, but ther...

A couple of additional perspectives have recently been published that more formally outline outcomes of the meeting. These still fall short ...

Several active bloggers were at the meeting and posts relating to their views are linked here. This list will be updated if and when I am al...