Wednesday, September 26, 2012

On the importance of metadata ...

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If you are reading this then you undoubtedly will know that much contention arises over the siting of stations, particularly over the Unite...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Do you want to help with data discovery?

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As was alluded to in an earlier posting here , NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has recently endeavored on an effort to discover an...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

A new homogenised daily temperature data set for Australia

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The ACORN-SAT station at Butlers Gorge in central Tasmania   A new homogenised daily temperature set, the AustralianClimate O...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Request for help: Identifying, prioritizing and digitizing International hard copy holdings held at NOAA NCDC

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Update 4/26: The googledocs share spreadsheet linked below has been updated and simplified which will hopefully make this easier for peop...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Initiative progress report posted

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The first Initiative progress report has been posted here . This details the acheivements, progress against agreed workplans, and any issues...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

More on benchmarking - COST HOME paper released

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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...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Benchmarking and Assessment applied to USHCN

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Firstly, an up-front caveat, I am third (last) author on this paper. Today the Journal of Geophysical Research has published a paper that...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Initiative overview paper published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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The first peer-reviewed paper describing the end to end envisaged International Surface Temperature Initiative scope has been published this...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

GHCN-M v3.1.0 – showing the value of engaging with software engineers

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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...
Monday, October 31, 2011

WCRP OSC thoughts

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WCRP OSC was a very large conference, mainly poster based. The sheer volume of posters was over-whelming. Plenary talks were generally v...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

ISTI at WCRP OSC

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Or acronym soup? For those who follow this effort and will be attending next week's WCRP OSC conference in Denver, Colorado, we will ...
Monday, October 17, 2011

ISTI Meeting Reports: 4th ACRE Workshop and GCOS Steering Committee meeting

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I've just got back from presenting the work of the International Surface Temperature Initiative at both the 4th ACRE Workshop (Utrecht, ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

You may have noticed we have a logo now ...

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Things are also starting to take shape in revamping the website. Any comments on this and suggestions as to how to make surfacetemperatures....
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Overarching implementation plan published

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We have today published an implementation plan for the initiative as a whole. The plan focuses primarily upon the steps necessary to comple...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Steering committee terms of reference and meeting minutes

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The latest steering committee minutes are available along with a first version of their terms of reference . Forthcoming soon will be an Im...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Prototype for the databank publicly available

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