Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets
IMPORTANT CLIMATE INDICATORS
Global Average Temperatures
UK climate and weather statistics
MARINE DATASETS
HadISST - Globally complete sea-ice and sea-surface temperature

HadSST2 - Uninterpolated sea-surface temperature

MOHMAT - Uninterpolated night marine air temperature

EN3 - ENSEMBLES: quality controlled in situ ocean temperature and salinity profiles

HadGOA - Global subsurface ocean analysis of temperature

HadDTR - A climatology of the diurnal temperature range of the Sea Surface

PRESSURE DATA
HadSLP2 - Monthly gridded sea-level pressures

EMSLP - Daily gridded sea-level pressures

UPPER AIR DATA
HadAT - Gridded free-atmosphere temperatures from radiosondes

QUARC - Quantifying Uncertainty in Adjusted Radiosonde Climate records

DAILY DATA/EXTREME INDICES
HadGHCND - Gridded land daily temperatures

HadEX - Indices of climate extremes

LAND SURFACE DATA

HadCET - Central England temperatures

HadUKP - England & Wales Precipitation

CRUTEM3 - Gridded land monthly temperatures

UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) gridded datasets

Urban - data used in study on urban temperature effects

COMBINED LAND/MARINE
HadCRUT3 - Gridded monthly temperatures

HadCRUH - Gridded monthly specific and relative humidities

OLDER DATASETS
GISST, MOHSST, HadSLP1, and HadRT are now obsolete and have been moved to a deprecated datasets page. They are retained solely for the purpose of comparison to the current datasets.
OTHER RESOURCES

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Global air temperature anomaly map for August 2003 showing hot European summer.

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