Friday, March 22, 2013

Initiative progress report published

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The initiative progress report has been published and shared with our 'sponsors'. This provides a useful overview of what has been...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Databank Release: Beta #3

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We are nearing an official version 1 release of the global land surface databank. However, because there have been major changes since the l...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

A database with daily climate data for more reliable studies of changes in extreme weather

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Repost from the blog Variable Variability . In summary: We want to build a global database of parallel measurements: observations of the ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Databank highlighted in EOS issue 5th Feb

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A brief communication in EOS appeared today outlining the databank available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EO060002/a...
Monday, January 28, 2013

More on efforts at data rescue and digitization - reposted press release

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Note: This is a copy of a press release by two sister organizations, ACRE and IEDRO that I am reposting for them upon request. Please sen...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Blacklisting

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Things have gone a bit quiet of late I realize. In part this is due to real-life which has a habit of getting in the way. But in large part...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

First public talk on Databank Merge Results: AMS Annual Meeting

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While there have been previous talks and posters about the International Surface Temperature Initiative, as well as the overall structure of...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

How should one update global and regional estimates and maintain long-term homogeneity?

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Prompted by recent discussions in various blogs and elsewhere (I'm writing this from a flaky airport connection on a laptop so no links...
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

High School Students Engage in Climate Research

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Please note that this is a guest post by Rich Kurtz, a teacher from Commack , NY state A few years ago I had a studen...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Databank update - nearby 'duplicates' issue raised by Nick Stokes

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Climate blogger Nick Stokes provided some additional feedback upon the beta 2 release alerting us to a case whereby two records for a stati...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

So what changed between beta1 and beta2?

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Even though we documented changes from the beta1 release to beta2 , did we actually change the overall results of the databank? Well, there...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Where do differences between the databank and GHCNv3 arise?

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If you were paying attention in an earlier post on characterizing the first version beta release you will have noted that the databank time...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Databank Release: Beta #2

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Today, we have released our second beta version of the global land surface databank. This update includes some changes that were made in res...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Taking the temperature of the Earth: Temperature Variability and Change across all Domains of Earth's Surface

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There is a session of the same title as this blog post being organized by collaegues in the Earthtemp initiative www.earthtemp.net at next...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Databank poster at Global Framework for Climate Services User Conference

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There is a meeting happening this week in Geneva in preparation for an Extraordinary Meeting of the World Meteorological Organization Congr...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

How do you decide if a station is to be merged, added as unique or withheld?

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The above flowchart is a simple visualization on how the merge program works. As you can see there are a number of different options the ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

How do I work out where a station series in the merged product originates?

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The above image is an example station from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. There were three different sources t...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Where is the databank merge code? How can I make it work?

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The merge code was written in FORTRAN 95 and is located within each variants directory. For example, if one were to find the code for the re...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Why are there several variants of the databank merge?

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Historically the storage, sharing and rescue of land meteorological data holdings has been incredibly fractured in nature. Different groups...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Is it too late to submit data for inclusion in the databank?

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Short answer: No Slightly longer answer: We are still accepting data submissions for inclusion in the first versio...