Monday, June 30, 2014

Global Land Surface Databank: Version 1.0.0 Release

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The International Surface Temperature Initiative is pleased to release version 1 of a new monthly dataset that brings together new and exis...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Understanding the effects of changes in the temperature scale standards through time

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Since records of surface temperature started being made there have been iterations of the fixed points standards used by national metrol...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Paper describing benchmarking concepts in OA review

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Just briefly to note that a discussion paper is now open for comment authored by the members of the benchmarking working group. This paper ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

The 2014 Earthtemp network workshop 23rd-25th June, KIT, Germany

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Posted on behalf Rosie Graves and Karen Veal The EarthTemp Network aims to stimulate new international collaboratio...
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...