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Met Office Initiative to Monitor Climate Change | 8 Mar 2010

The Met Office has revealed plans to create a new global temperature data set to help monitor climate change.

The new initiative aims to transform global warming measurements and will involve work across the international meteorological community.

The Met Office said that the new information will "add to and refine", rather than replacing, existing temperature datasets.

A spokesperson said: "The proposed dataset will provide information on changing extremes and regional variability, and so strengthen decisions on adapting to climate change.

"This will require surface temperature datasets with more detail than the current monthly averaged temperatures. Data will be available at daily, or even finer time scales, using methods that are fully peer reviewed and open to scrutiny providing independent assessments of surface temperature."