The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project has the following objectives:
- To merge existing surface station temperature data sets into a new comprehensive raw data set with a common format that could be used for weather and climate research
- To review existing temperature processing algorithms for averaging, homogenization, and error analysis to understand both their advantages and their limitations
- To develop new approaches and alternative statistical methods that may be able to effectively remove some of the limitations present in existing algorithms
- To create and publish a new global surface temperature record and associated uncertainty analysis
- To provide an open platform for further analysis by publishing our complete data and software code as well as tools to aid both professional and amateur exploration of the data
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