Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets

KEY CLIMATE INDICATORS

MARINE DATASETS

HadISST - Globally complete sea-ice and sea-surface temperature (updating)

HadSST4 - Uninterpolated sea-surface temperature (updating)

HadNMAT2 - Uninterpolated night marine air temperature (static)

EN4 - Sub-surface temperature and salinity profiles and analyses (updating)

HadIOD - Surface and sub-surface temperature and salinity observations (updating)

HadISST2 (sea ice) - Sea-ice concentration (updating)

DAILY & HOURLY DATA/EXTREME INDICES

HadEX3 - Global indices of climate extremes (static)

HadISD - Global sub-daily station data for assessment of climate extremes (updating)

HadGHCND - Global gridded daily land temperatures (static)

LAND SURFACE DATA

HadUK-Grid - UK 1km gridded data of various variables (updating)

HadCET - Central England temperatures (upating)

HadUKP - England & Wales Precipitation (updating)

CRUTEM5 - Global gridded monthly air temperatures (updating)

COMBINED LAND/MARINE

HadCRUT5 - Global gridded monthly temperatures (updating)

HadISDH - Global gridded surface humidity (updating)

PRESSURE DATA

HadSLP2 - Monthly gridded sea-level pressures (static)

UPPER AIR DATA

CM SAF microwave UTH – Upper tropospheric humidity from satellite sounders (external link)

HadTH - Radiosonde humidity trends analysis (static)

ONE-OFF DATA ACCOMPANYING JOURNAL ARTICLES

20CR - downscaled reanalysis data (static)

HadGOA - global sub-surface ocean temperature changes (static)

HadDTR - a sea surface temperature diurnal range climatology (static)

EMSLP - daily gridded sea level pressure (static)

QUARC - Radiosonde adjustment uncertainty assessment (static)

Urban - data used in study on urban temperatures (static)

Other reports related to the datasets (static)

OLDER DATASETS

CRUTEM4, HadCRUT4, HadSST3, HadEX, HadEX2, HadCRUH and HadAT have been moved to a deprecated datasets page. They are retained solely for the purposes of comparison to the current datasets.

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