Hadley SLP (HadSLP2)

One-Line Description: Hadley SLP V 2

Before acquiring Hadley SLP V2 data from CDC: Please register with the Hadley Centre to help the Hadley Centre prove that their datasets are widely used in order to continue to get funding to maintain and improve them.

Using Dataset: HadSLP2 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.

Spatial Coverage:

  • 87.5S-87.5N (by 5.0), 2.5E-357.5E (by 5.0)
Temporal Coverage:
  • Monthly means from Jan 1850 to Dec 2004.
Levels:
  • Sea Level

Detailed Description: Data is from Hadley Centre

Please note: If you acquire Hadley SLP 2 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 2 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 2 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
Missing Data:
  • None
Dataset Format and Size:
  • netCDF
  • 1 data files 9.1Mbytes
Original Source:
Hadley Centre
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/gmslp/hadslp2/index.html
Archive Location(s):
Climate Diagnostics branch of ESRL/PSD
325 Broadway
R/PSD1
Boulder, CO 80305-3328

References:
Allan, R.J. and Ansell, T. J. (2006) 'A new globally complete monthly historical mean sea level pressure data set (HadSLP2): 1850-2004', Journal of Climate, (accepted)
Availability and Usage Restrictions:
Anonymous ftp will be at ftp.cdc.noaa.gov
~ftp/Datasets.other/hadslp2
Contact Person(s):
Climate Diagnostics Data Management
Climate Diagnostics branch of ESRL/PSD
325 Broadway
R/PSD1
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
cdcdata@noaa.gov