Prior to instigation of the initiative

• The original Met Office proposal to the 2010 session of the Commission on Climatology is available here
• An opinion piece that appeared in Nature related to this effort is also available. Citation: Peter A. Stott Peter W. Thorne, Nature 465, 158-159 doi:10.1038/465158a
• A follow up letter to Nature is available here, Citation: Peter Stott & Peter Thorne Nature 466, 1040-1040 doi:10.1038/4661040d
• A Nature news piece preceded the workshop, as did a piece in The Economist and Sunday Telegraph
  
• Various versions of the initial workshop agenda are available here, here, here and the final version here

Press and selected blogs subsequent to initiative launch (most recent first)

• IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) Technical Committee 12 newsletter July 2011
  
• Piece at climatecentral
• Piece in the online version of Significance
• Meeting thoughts at:
• Serendipity (Steve Easterbrook)
• Bryan Lawrence
• Clear Climate Code
• Protons for Breakfast (1) (2) (Michael de Podesta)
  

Presentations/Posters on the work of the Initiative (see also working group and task team pages)

• Summary document for presentation of ISTI progress and recommendations to GCOS Steering Committee, presentation and meeting report, September 2011, ECMWF, Reading, UK (Kate Willett) 
• Presentation on the Initiative from the 4th ACRE Workshop, KNMI, Netherlands, September 2011 and meeting report.
  
• Poster on the initiative from the World Climate Research Program's Open Science Conference, October 2011.
• Talk given at WCRP OSC
  

Papers relating to the initiative and its progress

• Yatagai, A., N. Yasutomi, H. Saito and K. Ishihara (2011)
  Report on Exeter workshop "Creating surface temperature datasets to meet 21st Century challenges",   J. Japan Soc. Hydrol. and Water Resour., 24 (1), 50-57.
• Yatagai, A., N. Yasutomi, H. Saito and K. Ishihara (2011)
  Report on workshop "Creating surface temperature datasets to meet 21st Century challenges", Tenki, 58 (1), 47-53.
• Peter W. Thorne, Kate M. Willett, Rob J. Allan, Stephan Bojinski, John R. Christy, Nigel Fox, Simon Gilbert, Ian Jolliffe, John J. Kennedy, Elizabeth Kent, Albert Klein Tank, Jay Lawrimore, David E. Parker, Nick Rayner, Adrian Simmons, Lianchun Song, Peter A. Stott, Blair Trewin (2011)
  Guiding the creation of a Comprehensive Surface Temperature Resource for 21st Century Climate Science. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS3124.1 (AOP version is available from here)

Papers that mention the initiative

• Rob Allan, Philip Brohan, Gilbert P. Compo, Roger Stone, Juerg Luterbacher, Stefan Brönnimann (2011) The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS3218.1 (AOP version is available from here)