As part of a data exchange involving climate data, DSS received various global and hemispheric gridded analyses from the U.S.S.R. The analyses include a long time series of Northern Hemisphere surface pressure spanning the period 1880-1979, global total cloud amount for 1966-1985, and surface temperature, sea-level pressure, and upper-level geopotential heights for the overarching period of 1948-1984 (actual periods vary by parameter and atmospheric level).