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Instrumental Temperature Record Calculator

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You will need to download and uncompress at least one land station data set, and if desired an ocean data set.

Land data: CRUTEM3, CRUTEM4, GHCNv3.
Ocean data: HadSST2, HadSST3.

Select the files and calculation type in the panel below and click 'calculate'. Using the table at the bottom of the page you can review, compare and save the results of up to 5 calculations. Click a graph to produce a downloadable version.

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