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How best to log local temperatures?

Nature volume 465, pages 158–159 (2010)Cite this article

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The climate community must work together to create a single, clean, comprehensive and open repository of detailed temperature data, say Peter A. Stott and Peter W. Thorne.

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  • Sub-daily, kilometre-scale temperature records are needed to monitor and predict local impacts of climate change.

  • Climatologists need access to local weather information currently protected for commercial use.

  • Records need to be corrected and cross-referenced transparently, to be sound and trustworthy.

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Figure 1: More than 6,000 stations have reported at three-hourly intervals for at least 15 years.

SOURCE OF DATA: NOAA NCDC INTEGRATED SURFACE DATABASE

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  1. Peter W. Thorne: Peter Thorne, has recently left the Met Office to join the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Asheville, North Carolina 28801-5001, USA. Both authors are on the organizing committee for the September workshop.

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  1. Peter Stott is head of the Climate Monitoring and Attribution group at the Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK. peter.stott@metoffice.gov.uk ,

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Stott, P., Thorne, P. How best to log local temperatures?. Nature 465, 158–159 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465158a

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