GUIDING THE CREATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE SURFACE TEMPERATURE RESOURCE FOR TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CLIMATE SCIENCE

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 92; no. 11; pp. ES40 - ES47
• Main Authors: Thorne, Peter W., Willett, Kate M., Allan, Rob J., Bojinski, Stephan, Christy, John R., Fox, Nigel, Gilbert, Simon, Jolliffe, Ian, Kennedy, John J., Kent, Elizabeth, Tank, Albert Klein, Lawrimore, Jay, Parker, David E., Rayner, Nick, Simmons, Adrian, Song, Lianchun, Stott, Peter A., Trewin, Blair
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.11.2011
• Subjects: Climate change; Climate models; Climate science; Climatology; Data products; Datasets; Decision making; Decision trees; Global climate models; Graphics; MEETING SUMMARIES; Meetings; Meteorology; Noise; Oceanic climates; Scientists; Surface temperature; Weather

[...] we need to fully quantify and understand the uncertainties. [...] there can be no "one size fits all" solution and a renewed, vigorous effort at creating, comparing, and assessing multiple independently derived data products is needed from a truly comprehensive and publicly available...