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The surface temperatures of Earth: steps towards integrated understanding of variability and change
C. J. Merchant
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
S. Matthiesen
School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
N. A. Rayner
Hadley Centre, MetOffice, Exeter, UK
J. J. Remedios
University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, UK
P. D. Jones
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research/Department of Meteorology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
F. Olesen
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
B. Trewin
National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
P. W. Thorne
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway
R. Auchmann
Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
G. K. Corlett
University of Leicester, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, UK
P. C. Guillevic
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
G. C. Hulley
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Y. Brugnara, R. Auchmann, S. Brönnimann, R. J. Allan, I. Auer, M. Barriendos, H. Bergström, J. Bhend, R. Brázdil, G. P. Compo, R. C. Cornes, F. Dominguez-Castro, A. F. V. van Engelen, J. Filipiak, J. Holopainen, S. Jourdain, M. Kunz, J. Luterbacher, M. Maugeri, L. Mercalli, A. Moberg, C. J. Mock, G. Pichard, L. Řezníčková, G. van der Schrier, V. Slonosky, Z. Ustrnul, M. A. Valente, A. Wypych, and X. Yin
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K. M. Willett, R. J. H. Dunn, P. W. Thorne, S. Bell, M. de Podesta, D. E. Parker, P. D. Jones, and C. N. Williams Jr.
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