Hadley SLP

Dataset Identifier: Hadley SLP

One-Line Description: Hadley SLP

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Using Dataset: HadSLP1 is subject to Crown copyright protection. The material may be downloaded to file or printer for the purposes of private study and scientific research. Any other proposed use of the material is subject to a copyright license available from the Met Office.
See http://hadobs.metoffice.com/gmslp/terms_and_conditions.html.

Detailed Description: Data is from Hadley Centre

Please note: If you acquire Hadley SLP data products from PSD, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as Hadley SLP data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSD to justify keeping the Hadley SLP data set freely available online in the future. Thank you!

Archive Parameters: (File names are composed of variable abbreviations and statistic name.)

(variable).(statistic).nc

Variable Abbreviation Statistic Plot/Subset Data Download netCDF File
Sea Level Pressure mb Monthly mean Not yet slp.mnmean.nc
Sea Level Pressure mb Monthly Climatology Not yet slp.mon.ltm.nc

Spatial Coverage:

  • 87.5S-87.5N (by 5.0), 2.5E-357.5E (by 5.0)
Temporal Coverage:
  • Monthly anomalies from Jan 1871 to Dec 1998.
Levels:
  • Sea Level
Missing Data:
  • None
Search Keywords:
  • sea, level, pressure
Dataset Format and Size:
  • netCDF
  • 1 data files 9.1Mbytes
Original Source:
Hadley Centre
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/gmslp/
Archive Location(s):
Climate Diagnostics branch of ESRL/PSD
325 Broadway
R/PSD1
Boulder, CO 80305-3328

References:
Basnett, T. and Parker, D. 1997: Development of the Global Mean Sea Level Pressure Data Set GMSLP2, Climate Research Technical Note, 79, Hadley Centre, Met Office, FitzRoy Rd, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, UK.
Availability and Usage Restrictions:
Anonymous ftp will be at ftp.cdc.noaa.gov
~ftp/Datasets.other/hadslp
Contact Person(s):
Climate Diagnostics Data Management
Climate Diagnostics branch of ESRL/PSD
325 Broadway
R/PSD1
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
cdcdata@noaa.gov