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Monthly Gridded Met Office Historical Sea-Surface Temperature (MOHSST6) anomalies (1856-2006)
MOHSST, (Met Office Historical Sea-Surface Temperature) is a gridded dataset of sea-surface temperature anomalies covering the period 1856-2006.
MOHSST has now been superceeded by HadSST2. We now recommend use of HadSST2 instead of MOHSST for all purposes. MOHSST is only still available in case it is needed for direct comparison with earlier work where MOHSST was used.
MOHSST is produced by taking in-situ measurements of SST from ships and buoys, rejecting measurements which which fail quality checks, converting the measurements to anomalies by subtracting climatological values from the measurements, and averaging the resulting anomalies on a 5 by 5 degree monthly grid.
Up to 1996 the measurements used are those in the U.K. Marine Data Bank; more recent years use data coming in through the GTS.
After gridding the anomalies, bias corrections are applied to remove spurious trends caused by changes in SST measuring practices, and the data are smoothed to reduce noise.
The data were provided by the Met Office Hadley Centre.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-02T17:09:17
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-02T17:09:17
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- SST
- MOHSST6
- Met Office
- Hadley
- anomalies
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2006-08-30T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are ASCII formatted
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Data are ASCII formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Parker D.E. et al., 1995
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MOHSST6 File Format Explained
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Parker D.E. et al., 1995
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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MOHSST6 File Format Explained
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data files acquired by the BADC from the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2000.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Met Office Global Ice coverage and Sea Surface Temperatures (GISST), and Monthly night marine air temperature/SST anomalies (MOHMATN4)/(MOHSST6) Data (1856-2006) fda780a7697f384010674ebb1d5e4f23
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-05-17T00:34:33
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
