Climate monitoring and attribution - external collaborations
The climate monitoring and attribution research area is involved in collaborations with institutions around the world.
Our collaborations include:
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University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU): we work together to develop and improve the land air temperatures in the CRUTEM datasets and in the blended HadCRUT datasets.
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The USA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI): we collaborate on land surface air temperatures, sea surface temperatures and sub-surface ocean data.
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The Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) project: the ACRE initiative undertakes and facilitates the recovery of historical instrumental surface terrestrial and marine global weather observations to underpin surface-input-only 4D weather reconstructions (reanalyses) over the last 200-250 years for climate applications and impacts needs worldwide.
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The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK (NOCS): our collaboration on surface temperature data both over the ocean and the land includes the GloSAT project.
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Our collaborations with NOCS, ACRE and NCEI are also partnered with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) project, entailing regular workshops on the improvement and application of marine data.
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The International ad hoc Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG): we work together with other IDAG scientists on several projects related to the detection and attribution of climate change. IDAG has made major contributions to the reports of the IPCC Working Group I.
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University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre: improvement of land surface station meteorological observations for application to extremes and health hazards.
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We develop climate data records of upper tropospheric humidity under the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility.
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We work together with other groups in the UK and in Europe on the ESA Climate Change Initiative sea-surface temperature and land surface temperature projects and also the Climate Modelling Users Group.
- We have a leading role in the multi-national annual State of the Climate reports published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society under the umbrella of the World Meteorological Organisation.
- We are part of the International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI), which aims to rescue, collate, quality-control and homogenise land surface air temperature data. Aspects include development of a global land surface meteorological databank, and a benchmarking project for assessing and improving homogenisation techniques.
- We led the innovative EUSTACE EU project which produced information on daily surface air temperature globally and for Europe.
- We are part of various services provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, including leading their Data Rescue Service.
- We are members of the iQuOD initiative, developing a climate-quality ocean temperature database using a consistent and unified Quality Control Standard.
