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HadISD: terms and conditions

HadISD is distributed under the Non Commercial Government Licence. The data are available for non-commercial use with attribution to the data providers. This product may contain data which are governed by WMO Policy following WMO Resolution 40 Annex 1 alongside additional data that may have restrictions placed on their commercial use by the data owners. Any redistribution of this product should be accompanied by a similar statement of usage policy. HadISD is subject to Crown copyright protection. For further information on Crown Copyright policy and licensing arrangements, see the guidance featured on HMSO's web site.

Further information about licences can be obtained from the Met Office IPR Officer, Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB. E-mail: ipr@metoffice.gov.uk.

Users are kindly requested to include the following acknowledgement:

HadISD.[version number] data were obtained from http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd on [date downloaded] and are British Crown Copyright, Met Office [year of first publication], provided under an Open Government License, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial--government-licence/non-commercial-government-licence.htm“

Please cite the following publications when using this dataset. Please also state the version number used and the date of download.

Dunn, R. J. H., (2019), HadISD version 3: monthly updates, Hadley Centre Technical Note

Dunn, R. J. H., et al. (2016), Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 5, 473-491

Dunn, R. J. H., et al. (2014), Pairwise homogeneity assessment of HadISD, Climate of the Past, 10, 1501-1522

Dunn, R. J. H., et al. (2012), HadISD: A Quality Controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973-2011, Climate of the Past, 8, 1649-1679

Smith, A., et al. (2011): The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 704-708

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