Met Office - GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 - Global Ice coverage and SST (1856-2006)

General Info

Title:	Met Office - GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 - Global Ice coverage and SST (1856-2006)
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	Met Office - GISST
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_GISST

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and also global sea ice coverage (GICE2.3b). Dataset include monthly mean gridded, global SSTs from 1870 to February 2003 and Sea Ice coverage from 1870 to February 2003. This dataset is an updated version of GISST2.2 available on the GOSTAplus CD-Rom. Also included in this dataset are The MOHMATN4 and MOHSST6 datasets. MOHMATN4 is of monthly night marine air temperature anomalies, and the MOHSST6 dataset is of monthly SST anomalies. MOHMATN4 and MOHSST6 are both represented on 5 deg. grids from 1856-August 2006. Relative climatological datasets for 1961-1990 are also included. The data are provided by the Met Office.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature climatologies (GISST, Version 2.3b) and anomalies (MOHSST6), Night Marine Air temperature climatologies and anomalies (MOHMATN4) and Sea Ice coverage (GICE).

The data available is grouped into five sections:

Global Ocean Surface Temperature (GISST), a set of SST data in monthly 1° area grids, for 1871 to February 2003. This product is now replaced by the HadISST SST operational data.
Global sea-Ice content, (GICE), monthly 1° grids of ice coverage for 1871 to February 2003. This product is now replaced by the HadISST ICE operational data.
Met Office Historical Night Marine Air Temperature Anomalies, (MOHMATN4), monthly 5° grids of marine air temperature anomalies for 1856 to August 2006.
Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, (MOHSST6), monthly 5° grids of sea surface temperature anomalies for 1856 to August 2006. Please note that this data has now been superceded by HadSST2 data.

This data is provided by the Met Office.

An update to this dataset is available from the BADC under the name of Met Office - HadISST 1.1 (1870-present) for GISST and under the name of Met Office - HadSST2 (1850-present) for MOHSST6.

Access Restrictions

The Met Office wish to monitor the use of this data and require an acknowledgement of the data source if they are used in any publication. The online application for access to the Met Office SST data includes the Met Office Agreement to be electronically accepted.Please note that the Met Office data sets are available for bona fide academic research only (sorry no undergraduates), on a per person per project basis (i.e. all members on a same project who will be using the data must individually apply for access to the data). If you wish to access the Met Office data for commercial or personal purposes, please contact the Met Office directly.

Your application for accessing the GISST/GICE/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 data will be processed within a day of receipt. Provided your application is complete and fully meets the Met Office conditions, a web account will be activated to allow you access to the GOSTA-GISST directories via your login account from the BADC WWW Browse Archive pages.

Please read the 00README file available under /badc/ukmo-gosta/ directory to to guide you through the tree structure and the data directory.

Availability of data and file format

The data held at the BADC, are stored in a simple ASCII format (plain text and "human" readable). Each ASCII file consists of one year of monthly data. Information relative to the file format can be found in the documentation as provided by the Met Office.

Links to further information and references

The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change observational datasets site - www.hadobs.org.

A list of references is available.

An update to this dataset is available from the BADC under the name of Met Office - HadISST 1.1 (1870-present) for GISST and under the name of Met Office - HadSST2 (1850-present) for MOHSST6.

Also available is the GOSTAplus CD-ROM which contains some GISST, GICE, MOHSST6, MOHMATN4 data (to 1995) and maps. For more information about this CD-ROM, go to the GostaPlus BADC data Web page.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

If you have queries about these pages or about obtaining the Met Office GISST data from the BADC then you should contact BADC Support. Your query should be answered within one working day. When follow-up work is required, the BADC support will carry out the work as quickly and efficiently as possible, and in any case, the user will be kept informed of progress.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data files acquired from the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2000. Original data files were split in yearly files. Original files also available in the archive.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Data quality controlled by the Met Office. See documentation provided.

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
Met Office Hadley Centre

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Download	Met Office GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 Data Directory
Documentation	BADC Doc: GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 References
Documentation	Met Office Hadley Centre Website
Documentation	BADC Doc: GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 File Format
Apply for access	Apply for access to Met office GISST/MOHMATN4/MOHSST6 data
Logo	Met Office Logo

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

SEASURFACETEMPERATUREANOMALIES	SEASURFACETEMPERATURE	OCEANTEMPERATURE	OCEANS
EARTH SCIENCE	NULL	NIGHTMARINEAIRTEMPERATUREANOMALIES	AIRTEMPERATURE
ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE	ATMOSPHERE	SEAICECONCENTRATION	SEAICE

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
SEASURFACETEMPERATUREANOMALIES	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SEASURFACETEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
OCEANTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
OCEANS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0
NIGHTMARINEAIRTEMPERATUREANOMALIES	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
AIRTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
ATMOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
SEAICECONCENTRATION	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SEAICE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90.0
Min X: -180.0	Max X 180.0
Min Y -90.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1856-01-01
End Date:	2007-05-31

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
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Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

Links and Services
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