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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Please see Mitchell and Jones, 2005 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1181). The CRU TS3.00 files were produced by CRU and include data up to the end of 2006. However, only data up to June 2006 should be used. For dates later than this, any subsequent updates/corrections to the original data have not been included, so the values may be misleading. Please note, CRU TS 3.00 NetCDF data are experimental, not all attributes are correctly set yet. The data themselves should be identical to those in the ASCII versions. For CRU TS 3.10, the data have been examined in detail for consistency with CRU TS 3.00 by the CRU. Small differences may occur where additional station data have become available since CRU TS 3.00 was generated and are now included in the analysis. The data from the entire period 1901-2009 can be used, and all of the attributes in the NetCDF files are correctly set. For each new release of the CRU TS data, the underlying datasets have been improved. New stations have been added. Some stations have been removed for quality control purposes. This explains why data may not be exactly the same for a common time period.

The CRU TS 3.00 data (i.e. climate variables) are available in both compressed (.gz extension) ASCII ".dat" and netcdf ".nc" file formats. CRU TS 3.00 metadata files (i.e. stations) are available in ASCII. To understand how to read the CRU TS 3.00 data and metadata files, please refer to the CRU_TS_3.00_File_Formats_explained PDF documentation (under Linked Documentation below).