GISST Definition

GISST contains 1 degree grids of monthly mean Global Sea Surface Temperatures from 1871 to February 2003.

GISST describes data which are derived from MOHSST6. Sophisticated statistical methods are used to produce a global coverage of monthly one-degree-area sea surface temperatures: Rayner, N.A, et al 1996. (See ref. 8).

The version currently available online from BADC is GISST_2.3b.

N.B. A former version is available on CD-Rom (GISST_2.2), covering the time period 1851-1995. The next version, namely GISST_4 but called HadISST1.1 in the newly adopted standard nomenclature, is expected to be available in the course of Year 2000 or 2001.

For information relative to the file format, please refer to the documentation.

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