Monthly Gridded Met Office Historical Sea-Surface Temperature (MOHSST6) anomalies (1856-2006)

MOHSST, (Met Office Historical Sea-Surface Temperature) is a gridded dataset of sea-surface temperature anomalies covering the period 1856-2006.

MOHSST has now been superceeded by HadSST2. We now recommend use of HadSST2 instead of MOHSST for all purposes. MOHSST is only still available in case it is needed for direct comparison with earlier work where MOHSST was used.

MOHSST is produced by taking in-situ measurements of SST from ships and buoys, rejecting measurements which which fail quality checks, converting the measurements to anomalies by subtracting climatological values from the measurements, and averaging the resulting anomalies on a 5 by 5 degree monthly grid.

Up to 1996 the measurements used are those in the U.K. Marine Data Bank; more recent years use data coming in through the GTS.

After gridding the anomalies, bias corrections are applied to remove spurious trends caused by changes in SST measuring practices, and the data are smoothed to reduce noise.

The data were provided by the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Date (Publication): 2007-02-02T17:09:17

Date (Creation): 2007-02-02T17:09:17

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (MOHC)	unknown	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

SST
MOHSST6
Met Office
Hadley
anomalies

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1856-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2006-08-30T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are ASCII formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-gosta/data/mohsst6/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01095162	Parker D.E. et al., 1995

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/gisst/file_format.html#mohsst6	MOHSST6 File Format Explained

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data files acquired by the BADC from the Met Office Hadley Centre in 2000.

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File identifier: 2291d3582cab3293b615ae0ee1ece5bd XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Met Office Global Ice coverage and Sea Surface Temperatures (GISST), and Monthly night marine air temperature/SST anomalies (MOHMATN4)/(MOHSST6) Data (1856-2006)
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-04T03:01:56

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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