Thursday, February 6, 2014

Workshop on novel approaches to homogenization, Boulder, July 2014

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We have long recognized that the enabling framework aspects of the Initiative (databank, benchmarks, data serving) are but one aspect of th...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Initiative progress report published

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The overarching initiative progress report has now been published and is available here . This will now be sent to initiative sponsors for ...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

All participants meeting Jan 2014

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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...
Friday, January 10, 2014

The surface temperatures of Earth: steps towards integrated understanding of variability and change

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As mentioned back in the summer a paper led by Chris Merchant of Reading University on all aspects of surface temperatures arising from a...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Surface Temperatures at EGU 2014 - now in PICO format

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A guest post by Stephan Matthiesen of the Earthtemp Initiative Following last year's success, the EarthTemp Network is again organi...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Summary of Regional Inhomogeneities in Surface Temperature

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A few months ago the ISTI Benchmarking group made a call to the homogenisation community to submit any times/characters of known inhomoge...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Request for support sent from World Meteorological Organization to National Met Services

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Earlier this month a letter was circulated from WMO on behalf of the Director General to the Permanent Representatives of its member servic...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Benchmarking and assessment workshop

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Cross-posted from the benchmarking blog . The workshop agenda and full report can be found here .  Below is the executive summary....
Friday, July 19, 2013

New Initiative Implementation Plan published covering 2013-2015

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This afternoon we have published a new version of the Initiative over-arching Implementation Plan to cover the period 2013-2015. The docume...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Earthtemp position paper on surface temperatures published - comments are welcome

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Post by Stephan Matthiesen The EarthTemp community position paper, which reviews the state of art of measuring the surface temperatur...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

IDL users of the netcdf files databank take note

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If using certain versions of IDL (mine for example - 8.0) and sequentially reading, manipulating and then writing out the files there is a ...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Databank beta 4 release

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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...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Notes from meeting open to all initiative participants

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Last week we held a call with an open invitation to all those actively participating in the initiative. This call concentrated upon where w...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Meeting announcement: Characterising surface temperatures in data-sparse and extreme regions (with a focus on high-latitude domains)

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2nd Annual EarthTemp Network Meeting   12-14 June 2013, Copenhagen  Data-sparse and extreme regions is the topic of the second year ...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Call for regional inhomogeneity info

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To create realistic benchmarks we would like to reproduce times and locations of known sources of inhomogeneity as best we can. Pleas...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Initiative posters at 2013 EGU

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