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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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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-02-02T17:09:17
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-02-02T17:09:17
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- SST
- MOHSST6
- Met Office
- Hadley
- anomalies
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- 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
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are ASCII formatted
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Data are ASCII formatted
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- OnLine resource
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Parker D.E. et al., 1995
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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MOHSST6 File Format Explained
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data files acquired by the BADC from the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2000.
- File identifier
- 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- 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
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-09T02:12:47
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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