The CRUTEM4 land-surface air temperature data set: Construction, previous versions and dissemination via Google Earth

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Osborn, T. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-6799 and Jones, P. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493 (2014) The CRUTEM4 land-surface air temperature data set: Construction, previous versions and dissemination via Google Earth. Earth System Science Data, 6 (1). pp. 61-68. ISSN 1866-3508

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Abstract

The CRUTEM4 (Climatic Research Unit Temperature, version 4) land-surface air temperature data set is one of the most widely used records of the climate system. Here we provide an important additional dissemination route for this data set: online access to monthly, seasonal and annual data values and time series graphs via Google Earth. This is achieved via an interface written in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and also provides access to the underlying weather station data used to construct the CRUTEM4 data set. A mathematical description of the construction of the CRUTEM4 data set (and its predecessor versions) is also provided, together with an archive of some previous versions and a recommendation for identifying the precise version of the data set used in a particular study.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/crutem...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2014 18:11
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 16:52
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47861
DOI:	10.5194/essd-6-61-2014

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