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Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA), and Land Surface Atlas
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GOSTAplus (Atlas 8) and the Blended Land Surface and SST
Atlas were taked from the GOSTAplus CD-ROM received at NCAR
February 1998. The period of record for these grids is 1851-1995.
The sea and land surface temperature portions of this data collection,
which span 1856 to 1995, have in general
been superceded
by continued developments of
HadISST (DS277.3) , and
Jones'
Monthly Global Surface Temperature (DS215.0) .
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| PERIODS: |
1851 to 1995
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| VARIABLES: |
| Heat Flux | Longwave Radiation | Sea Surface Temperature | Shortwave Radiation |
| Surface Air Temperature | | | |
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| LEVELS: |
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| TIMES: |
Every month (Mean)
Monthly Climatology
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
5° x 5°, 177.5W to 177.5E and 87.5N to 87.5S (72 x 36 Latitude/Longitude)
1° x 1°, 179.5W to 179.5E and 89.5N to 89.5S (360 x 180 Latitude/Longitude)
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| SOURCES: |
GB/MOD/MET/HADLEY Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
MIT/EAPSDept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Parker, D.E. and C.K. Folland, 1995: Correction of instrumental biases in historical sea surface temperature data. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 121, 319-367.
Parker, D.E., C.K. Folland and M. Jackson, 1995: Marine surface temperature: observed variations and data requirements. Climate Change, 31, 559-600.
Jones, P.D., 1994: Hemispheric Surface Air Temperature Variations: A Reanalysis and an Update to 1993. J. Climate, 7(11), 1794-1802.
Parker, D.E., P.D. Jones, C.K. Folland and A. Bevan, 1994: Interdecadal changes of surface temperature since the late nineteenth century. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 14373-14399.
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| VOLUME: |
125.13 MBytes
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| FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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