re: #72 SixDegrees

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.

This link seems to be the whole story (at least from one point of view) of the Freedom of Information Act requests and the results and non-results, from the gentleman who asked for the CRU data…

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