HadISDH blend: gridded global monthly ocean surface humidity data version 1.0.0.2019f

This is the 1.0.0.2019f version of the HadISDH (Integrated Surface Database Humidity) blend data. It combines HadISDH.land.4.2.0.2019f and HadISDH.marine.1.0.0.2019f. These data are provided by the Met Office Hadley Centre. This version spans 1/1/1973 to 31/12/2019.

The data are monthly gridded (5 degree by 5 degree) fields. Products are available for temperature and six humidity variables: specific humidity (q), relative humidity (RH), dew point temperature (Td), wet bulb temperature (Tw), vapour pressure (e), dew point depression (DPD). Data are provided in NetCDF format.

This version is the first available.

To keep informed about updates, news and announcements follow the HadOBS team on twitter @metofficeHadOBS.

For more detailed information e.g bug fixes, routine updates and other exploratory analysis, see the HadISDH blog: http://hadisdh.blogspot.co.uk/

References:

When using the dataset in a paper please cite the following papers (see Docs for link to the publications) and this dataset (using the "citable as" reference):

Willett, K. M., Dunn, R. J. H., Kennedy, J. J. and Berry, D. I.: Development of the HadISDH marine humidity climate monitoring dataset. Earth System Sciences Data, in review, doi:XX.XXXX/essd-XX-XXXX-2020, 2020.

Willett, K. M., Dunn, R. J. H., Thorne, P. W., Bell, S., de Podesta, M., Parker, D. E., Jones, P. D., and Williams Jr., C. N.: HadISDH land surface multi-variable humidity and temperature record for climate monitoring, Clim. Past, 10, 1983-2006, doi:10.5194/cp-10-1983-2014, 2014.

Freeman, E., Woodruff, S. D., Worley, S. J., Lubker, S. J., Kent, E. C., Angel, W. E., Berry, D. I., Brohan, P., Eastman, R., Gates, L., Gloeden, W., Ji, Z., Lawrimore, J., Rayner, N. A., Rosenhagen, G. and Smith, S. R., ICOADS Release 3.0: A major update to the historical marine climate record. International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.4775.

Dunn, R. J. H., et al. 2016: Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 5, 473-491.

Smith, A., N. Lott, and R. Vose, 2011: The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 704–708, doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3015.1

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2020-06-29T11:35:00

Dataset Reference Date (): 2020-06-29T11:35:00

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/d38d5949dfb1438185894321095583f4

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / d38d5949dfb1438185894321095583f4

Identifier: doi / 10.5285/d38d5949dfb1438185894321095583f4

Unavailable - Willett, Kate M. ( author )

Unavailable - Dunn, Robert J. H. ( author )

Unavailable - Kennedy, John J. ( author )

Unavailable - Berry, David I. ( author )

Unavailable - Thorne, Peter W. ( author )

Unavailable - Bell, Stephanie ( author )

Unavailable - de Podesta, Michael ( author )

Unavailable - Parker, David E. ( author )

Unavailable - Jones, Philip D. ( author )

Unavailable - Williams Jr., Claude N. ( author )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) - data_owner

FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB , UK

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact

RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Unavailable - Willett, Kate M. ( point_of_contact )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned

Update scope: dataset

Keywords

HadISDH
blend
humidity
surface
marine
gridded
station
specific humidity
temperature
dew point temperature
wet bulb temperature
dew point temperature
vapour pressure
in-situ

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

Limitations on Public Access: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: grid

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1973-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2019-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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These data are provided in NetCDF and ASCII formats, descriptors of the file formats are included in Docs. ()

Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.marine process diagram
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.land 2014 reference paper
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Resource Locator: HadISDH Data Format v2
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.land 2013 paper
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Resource Locator: HadISD reference paper
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Resource Locator: ICOADS.3.0.0 reference paper
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Resource Locator: ISD reference paper
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Resource Locator: Met Office HadOBS twitter feed
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Resource Locator: HadISDH Homepage
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Resource Locator: HadISDH land update doc for version 4.2.0.2019f
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Resource Locator: HadISDH marine update doc for version 1.0.0.2019f
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.marine process diagram
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.land 2014 reference paper
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Resource Locator: HadISDH Data Format v2
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Resource Locator: HadISDH.land 2013 paper
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Resource Locator: HadISD reference paper
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Resource Locator: ICOADS.3.0.0 reference paper
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Resource Locator: Met Office HadOBS twitter feed
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Resource Locator: HadISDH land update doc for version 4.2.0.2019f
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Resource Locator: HadISDH marine update doc for version 1.0.0.2019f
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Quality Scope: dataset

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: HadISDH.blend is a global land (~2 m) and ocean (~10 m) surface humidity dataset and is produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre in collaboration with CRU, Maynooth University, NPL, NOAA-NCEI and NOC. It is based on the sub-daily station observations from HadISD (originally from ISD) and ship observations from ICOADS. It is passed to the BADC for archiving and distribution. Gridboxes containing both land and marine data are combined using a weighted average with a minimum and maximum weighting of 25% and 75% respectively.

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File identifier: d38d5949dfb1438185894321095583f4 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: HadISDH: global surface humidity data 251474c7b09449d8b9e7aeaf1461858f

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2022-07-01T00:18:05

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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