re: #49 HoosierHoops

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Policy on Partnerships in the Provision of Environmental Information strengthens the partnership among government, academia and the private sector which provides the nation with high quality environmental information.
I’m sure they would be very helpful supplying data…Just download all the Dbase data from the CRU or ask them…I think Thanos said today he already did

The CRU no longer has the raw data; it was deleted after preliminary editing and filtering. The original data came from NOAA; my impression is that it was a compendium of several data collections. So contacting the CRU would be the first step - both to obtain the designation of the data that was used and to determine how it was filtered - followed by contacting NOAA to see how to obtain the raw data. CRU retained the processed data, but not the raw NOAA data it was derived from.

Me, personally, I would have kept the original dataset, if only to be spared the labor of reassembling it again if a revisit of any sort were required. That’s how we handle software deliveries. Everything - source code, third party software, test data, test results - that goes into a delivery gets archived, so every little bit that went into building and testing any given version can be retrieved if required.

But mentioning this seems to raise hackles for some, so I’ll leave it at that.