Roger wrote:

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from Terry Fields contains these words:

I'd like to try playing with the MetO data, but two things aren't
working in my favour: a brief search of the MetO site didn't turn up
the figures - have you come across them. by any chance?

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3...download.html?

If you can find out what it all means. :-)

I've worked out that 1.0000000E+30 means 'data missing'....

.....but not a lot else :-(

The best hope might be to find the actual data needed on a blog, but
that seems to be just as obscure....