GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
This version of NASA dataset dataset was updated to use NOAA's ERSST V5 on Oct 25 2017. Previously, V4 was used as the SST input.
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One-Line Description:
Temporal Coverage:
Spatial Coverage:
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Levels:
- N/A
Update Schedule:
- Monthly
Download/Plot Data: (Download Issues)
Archive parameters:
Variable | Statistic | Level | Download File | Create Plot/Subset |
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Air Temperature | Monthly Anomaly: 250km smoothed | Surface | air.2x2.mon.anom.land.nc |
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Air Temperature | Monthly Anomaly: 1200km smoothed | Surface | air.2x2.mon.anom.land.nc |
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Combined SST/Air Temperature | Monthly Anomaly: 250km smoothed | Surface | air.2x2.mon.anom.comb.nc |
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Combined SST/Air Temperature | Monthly Anomaly: 1200km smoothed | Surface | air.2x2.mon.anom.comb.nc |
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Usage Restrictions:
- None
Detailed Description:
- From the NASA webpage: Temperature data is updated "around the middle of every month using current data files from NOAA GHCN v3 (meteorological stations), ERSST v5 (ocean areas), and SCAR (Antarctic stations), combined as described in our December 2010 publication (Hansen et al. 2010). These updated files incorporate reports for the previous month and also late reports and corrections for earlier months." Please refer to the NASA webpage for more details, caveats, and products.
Caveats:
- None
Related File Naming & Structure Information:
File Names:
- var.time.stat.nc (In directory: /Datasets/gistemp/)
Dataset Format and Size:
- 4 PSL standard NetCDF4 monthly files.
Missing Data:
- Missing data is flagged with a value of 9999.f
Citation:
- Please note: If you acquire GISTEMP data products from PSL, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as GISTEMP data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at / in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSL to justify keeping the GISTEMP data set freely available online in the future. Thank you!
References:
- Please refer to the list available at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/references.html.
Original Source:
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS): data and images at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/. Goddard is part of NASA
Contact:
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Boulder, CO 80305-3328
psl.data@noaa.gov
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