Gordon Manley
Gordon Valentine Manley, FRGS (3 January 1902 – 29 January 1980) was an English climatologist who assembled the Central England temperature (CET) series of monthly mean temperatures stretching back to 1659. This is the longest standardised instrumental record available for anywhere in the world. It provides a benchmark for proxy records of climatic change for the period covered, and is a notable example of scientific scholarship and perseverance (it took over thirty years to complete). His two papers describing the work are available online.
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