HadISST
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HadISST¶
Overview¶
The Met Office Hadley Centre’s sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) data set, HadISST1, consists of monthly globally-complete fields of SST and sea ice concentration on a 1 degree latitude-longitude grid from 1870 to date.
More information is available from the HadISST website.
Data download¶
We downloaded the HadISST dataset in netCDF format from the HadISST download page using a python based code.
The code uses the requests module to download the files. To run it:
$ python hadisst.py
Monthly updates are managed via the Jenkins accessdev server.
Data location¶
We’ve downloaded HadISST data to:
/g/data/ia39/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/hadisst/data/<files>
License¶
According to the HadISST terms and conditions, HadISST is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under a Non-Commercial Government Licence. Further information about the licence can be obtained from here.
Reference¶
Rayner NA, Parker DE, Horton EB, Folland CK, Alexander LV, Rowell DP, Kent EC, Kaplan A (2003). Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108, D14, 4407. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002JD002670
Acknowledgement¶
According to the HadISST terms and conditions, users should include one of the following:
For use in the UK, “HadISST data were obtained from https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst/ and are Crown Copyright, Met Office, [year of first publication], provided under a Non-Commercial Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/”.
For use outside the UK, “HadISST data were obtained from https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst/ and are British Crown Copyright, Met Office, [year of first publication], provided under a Non-Commercial Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/”.
The source should also be quoted in the acknowledgements section as www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs.
Assistance¶
For assistance with HadISST data on NCI, open a new issue at https://github.com/aus-ref-clim-data-nci/HadISST/issues