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HadISST1 – Met Office Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set

HadISST1 – Met Office Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set is an open dataset published by Met Office Hadley Centre, under Open Government Licence (v2 linked) – Crown copyright. It describes climate change. Coverage: global, 1870 – present (2026). Biohotspot shows it on its map as 16 layers.

Open Government Licence (v2 linked) – Crown copyrightFree downloadOn the map · 16 layers

What it describes

Driver/Pressure
Climate change
Variables
SSTR (°C)

On the Biohotspot map

Open a layer to see it on the map, then tap any sea or draw an area to read its values there.

Get the data

Download HadISST_sst.nc.gz (CF NetCDF) from the download page (or yearly gzipped text files). Subsets via CEDA (free registration).

How to cite it

Rayner, N. A.; Parker, D. E.; Horton, E. B. et al. (2003) Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. J. Geophys. Res. 108(D14), 4407, doi:10.1029/2002JD002670

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