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.

One-Line Description: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) surface temperature analysis for the globe. Temporal Coverage: Monthly anomalies 1880/01 to present (NASA uses 1951-1980 base period). Spatial Coverage: 2.0 degree latitude x 2.0 degree longitude global grid (360x180). 89.0N - 80.0S, 1.0E - 359.5E.

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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
Air Temperature	Monthly Anomaly: 250km smoothed	Surface	air.2x2.mon.anom.land.nc
Air Temperature	Monthly Anomaly: 1200km smoothed	Surface	air.2x2.mon.anom.land.nc
Combined SST/Air Temperature	Monthly Anomaly: 250km smoothed	Surface	air.2x2.mon.anom.comb.nc
Combined SST/Air Temperature	Monthly Anomaly: 1200km smoothed	Surface	air.2x2.mon.anom.comb.nc

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:

• Physical Sciences Laboratory: Data Management
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  Boulder, CO 80305-3328
  psl.data@noaa.gov