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HadCRUT5: terms and conditions

HadCRUT5 is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under the Open Government License v3. When publishing work using the data, please use the following citation:
Morice, C.P., J.J. Kennedy, N.A. Rayner, J.P. Winn, E. Hogan, R.E. Killick, R.J.H. Dunn, T.J. Osborn, P.D. Jones and I.R. Simpson (in press) An updated assessment of near-surface temperature change from 1850: the HadCRUT5 dataset. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) doi:10.1029/2019JD032361

A term of the licence is that users must include the following acknowledgement when the data are used:

HadCRUT.[version number] data were obtained from http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5 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/open-government-licence/version/3/

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