Identification

Title

Climatological Atlas: 1950-1979 Surface Air Temperature, Precipitation, Sea-level Pressure, and Sea-surface Temperature (45 S-90 N)

Abstract

Monthly surface air temperatures (TMP), sea-level pressures (SLP), sea surface temperatures (SST) and precipitation (PRC) from two complementary historical data sets are used to derive some statistics of the climate between 45��S and 90��N for the period 1950-79, inclusive. The historical data sets are the Global Monthly Surface Station Data Set, primarily based upon observations from land stations, and the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set, primarily based upon observations from ships of opportunity. The maps included in this atlas are presented for two purposes: (i) to provide useful background fields against which new measurements may be compared and interpreted and (ii) to provide examples of the sampling networks available from the aforementioned historical data sets.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7gm86p5

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

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code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keyword set

keyword value

Sea level pressure

Precipitation amount

Sea surface temperature

Air temperature

originating controlled vocabulary

title

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-09-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

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publication

effective date

1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Use constraints

Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

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OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-07-17T18:00:39.058982

Metadata language

eng; USA