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No US temperatures
Along with other changes I’ve been making to ccc-gistemp I recently added a feature to remove GHCN stations that are in the contiguous US. I did that partly because GISTEMP’s Fortran has a similar...
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Masking GISTEMP
[update: 2010-08-26: the "no arctic" masks were wrong, fixed now] I added a land mask feature to ccc-gistemp. The land mask is used In Step 5, where land and ocean series are combined into zonal...
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A real land mask
As mentioned in the previous post, I now have a real land mask from ISLSCP Initiative II. The format of the files in refreshingly simple. 180 rows with 360 space separated numbers. It takes nothing...
View ArticleThe Climate Code Foundation
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Climate Code Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by David Jones, Nick Barnes, and Philippa Davey to promote public...
View ArticleSurface Temperatures Workshop
David Jones and I attended the Surface Temperatures workshop at the Met Office in Exeter this week. This is the kickoff meeting for an ambitious new project to produce a far more comprehensive databank...
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GHCN-M V3
Why bother with words when abbreviations are so much more cryptic? As pd points out, there is a new version of Global Historical Climate Network, version 3. There isn’t an official announcement yet,...
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Canada
It’s easy to note that GHCN is a bit lacking when it comes to recent temperature data for Canada: Canada is of course just a particular aspect of the global case, which is well known and discussed in...
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Analysis of Canada data
In an earlier post I describe the trials and tribulations of tracking down some station data from Environment Canada’s website. The obvious question to ask is, how does this affect the ccc-gistemp...
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Gavin’s bug
(I call it Gavin’s bug because he found it, not because he created it). Gavin’s bug concerns Step 3, and in particular the part where for each cell a list of stations within 1200 km is created....
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2011
[Cross-posted from the Foundation blog] Google have announced their Summer of Code, and we intend to be a mentoring organisation. If you’re a student, this is an opportunity to work on our open source...
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