Dataset
Monthly Gridded Met Office Historical Sea-Surface Temperature (MOHSST6) anomalies (1856-2006)
Abstract
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.
Details
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11704361571213741
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| Access rules: |
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data files acquired by the BADC from the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2000. |
| Data Quality: |
Data quality controlled by the Met Office. See documentation provided.
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| File Format: |
Data are ASCII formatted
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Related Documents
| Parker D.E. et al., 1995 |
| MOHSST6 File Format Explained |
Process overview
| Title | MOHSST6 sea surface temperature anomalies data processing deployed on Met Office Hadley Centre Computers |
| Abstract | This computation involved: MOHSST6 sea surface temperature anomalies data processing deployed on Met Office Hadley Centre Computers. Process used to create the MOHSST6 dataset. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- long_name: Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
- names: Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
1856-01-01T00:00:00
2006-08-30T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |