Post by Stephan Matthiesen The EarthTemp community position paper, which reviews the state of art of measuring the surface temperatur...

If using certain versions of IDL (mine for example - 8.0) and sequentially reading, manipulating and then writing out the files there is a ...

Today we released a fourth beta release of the databank holdings. The associated readme file is available at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/d...

Last week we held a call with an open invitation to all those actively participating in the initiative. This call concentrated upon where w...

2nd Annual EarthTemp Network Meeting   12-14 June 2013, Copenhagen  Data-sparse and extreme regions is the topic of the second year ...

To create realistic benchmarks we would like to reproduce times and locations of known sources of inhomogeneity as best we can. Pleas...

There were two posters presented at EGU this year outlining Initiative progress and promoting the use of the databank by groups interested...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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