A Quality-Controlled Sea Surface Temperature Analysis

The U.K. Met Office acquired a copy of more than 31 million sea-surface temperature observations from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center. Because SST observations had low accuracy and high scatter, the Met Office applied a quality control method that was developed within their Synoptic Climatology Branch. The resulting dataset here is a gridded monthly mean analysis at 5-degree resolution for the Northern Hemisphere.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1855-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO_GRIB1
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 3.00 MB
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Author Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1980-03-27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/XKJF-SV65
Alternate Identifier d276000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:16:28Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d276000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom. (1980). A Quality-Controlled Sea Surface Temperature Analysis. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/XKJF-SV65. Accessed 04 October 2025.

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