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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been superceded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 Longitude/Latitude)
1° x 1°, 179.5W to 179.5E and 89.5N to 89.5S (360 x 180 Longitude/Latitude)
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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.
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 ds289.1."
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| VOLUME: |
125.13 MBytes
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| DATA 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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