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Hadley Centre Global Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature (HadISST)

This dataset includes HadISST1 and HadSST2 from UK Hadley Centre. HadISST1 is a unique combination of monthly globally-complete fields of SST and sea ice concentration on a 1 degree latitude-longitude grid from 1870 to date, and HadSST2 is a monthly global field of SST on a 5 dgrees latitude-longitude grid from 1850 to date, neither interpolated nor variance adjusted.

The data may also be obtained from the server at the Hadley Centre in the UK.

Go to Merged Hadley - OI.v2 SST and Sea Ice Concentration dataset for a new surface boundary dataset for uncoupled simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM).


PERIODS: 1850-01 to 2009-10-31 (Entire dataset)
Period details by subset
UPDATES: Monthly (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Sea Ice ConcentrationSea Surface Temperature
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every month
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: GB/MOD/MET/HADLEY
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
RELATED SITES: HADISST and other datasets from the Hadley Centre
Merged Hadley Centre (HADISST) and OI.v2 SST and Sea Ice from NCAR CDP
PUBLICATIONS: Rayner, N.A., P.Brohan, D.E.Parker, C.K.Folland, J.J.Kennedy, M.Vanicek, T.Ansell and S.F.B.Tett, 2006: Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in situ since the mid-nineteenth century: the HadSST2 data set. J. of Climate, 19(3), 446-469.

Rayner, N.A., D.E. Parker, E.B. Horton, C.K. Folland, L.V. Alexander, D.P. Rowell, E.C. Kent, and A. Kaplan, 2003: Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. J. Geophys. Res. (Atmospheres), 108(14), 2-1 (DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002670).

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds277.3."
VOLUME: 146.67 MBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds277.0 - NCEP Version 2.0 OI Global SST and NCDC Version 3.0 Extended Reconstructed SST Analyses
ds540.0 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS Release 2.5), Global Marine Surface Observations
ds540.1 - International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS 2.4), Global Marine Monthly Summaries

CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Zaihua Ji (303-497-1819) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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