The surface temperatures of Earth: Steps towards integrated understanding of variability and change

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 305-321

  Merchant, C J ^a,b   Matthiesen, S ^b   Rayner, N A ^c   Remedios, J J ^d   Jones, P D ^e,f   Olesen, F ^g   Trewin, B ^h   Thorne, P W ⁱ   Auchmann, R ^j   Corlett, G K ^d   Guillevic, P C ^k,l   Hulley, G C ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

ⁱ NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^k NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH; COMMUNITY-BASED; INTERCOMPARISONS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; EARTH STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85099774186     PISSN: 21930856     EISSN: 21930864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gi-2-305-2013     Document Type: Article

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