Phil D. Jones

TL;DR: HadCRUT4 as mentioned in this paper is a new data set of global and regional temperature evolution from 1850 to the present, which includes the addition of newly digitized measurement data, both over land and sea, new sea-surface temperature bias adjustments and a more comprehensive error model for describing uncertainties in sea surface temperature measurements.

TL;DR: The Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research (READER) project data set of monthly mean Antarctic nearsurface temperature, mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) and wind speed has been used to investigate trends in these quantities over the last 50 years for 19 stations with long records as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared six interpolation methods for the interpolation of daily precipitation, mean, minimum and maximum temperature, and sea level pressure from station data over Europe from 1961 to 1990.

TL;DR: From the analysis of the interpolation uncertainties provided as part of E-OBS, it is concluded that the interpolations standard deviation provided with the data significantly underestimates the true interpolation error when cross validated using station data, and therefore will similarly underestimate the interpolated error in the gridded E- OBS data.

TL;DR: It is argued that the abrupt temperature drop in 1945 is the apparent result of uncorrected instrumental biases in the sea surface temperature record, and Corrections for the discontinuity are expected to alter the character of mid-twentieth century temperature variability but not estimates of the century-long trend in global-mean temperatures.