Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA), and Land Surface Atlas

GOSTAplus (Atlas 8) and the Blended Land Surface and SST Atlas were taked from the GOSTAplus CDROM received at NCAR February 1998. The period of record for these grids is 1851-1995.

The sea and land surface temperature portions of this data collection, which span 1856 to 1995, have in general been superseded by continued developments of HadISST (DS277.3) [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds277.3/], and Jones' Monthly Global Surface Temperature (DS215.0) [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds215.0/].

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1851
    End:  1995

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1851
Temporal Range End 1995
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90
Bounding Box South Lat -90
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 125.00 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Thomas Cram
Resource Support Email tcram@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1991-02-28
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/0HWV-JV68
Alternate Identifier d289001
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:16:59Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d289001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom. (1991). Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA), and Land Surface Atlas. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/0HWV-JV68. Accessed 04 October 2025.

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