The BEST team has produced the best land surface temperature data set that we currently have. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
So Australia's BOM data and NZ's NIWA data, both «adjusted» out of their cotton picking minds whether needed or not and generally butchered [and thats being polite,] around with until it bears little relationship with reality accounts for at least one fifth and close to nearly one quarter of the total global land surface temperature data. (judithcurry.com)
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using AIRS Land Surface Temperature data provided courtesy of the AIRS team. (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)