HadAT2 Data: Download

Data description

HadAT2 is the recommended version of our gridded radiosonde temperature product. It is a monthly timeseries available on a 10 degree longitude by 5 degree latitude basis. Data are available on nine seperate pressure levels (850, 700, 500, 300, 200, 150, 100, 50, and 30hPa). All values are anomalies relative to the monthly 1966-95 climatology. To create zonal averages we have simply averaged all available gridbox values in each 5 degree latitude band. Large scale mean timeseries for the globe and the tropics (defined here as 20N to 20S) are simply cos(lat) weighted zonal mean field values. This reduces the spatial sampling bias towards Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Other plausible large-scale averaging techniques would impact the timeseries values calculated.

Netcdf files are CF compliant (external link). ASCII files contain formatting information in their headers.

Updates

We are no longer updating HadAT. The data set currently ends in December 2012.

Data usage

The data is free for use for non-commercial applications: please read the terms and conditions.

More information and diagnostics

Some typically used diagrams are available on our Frequently used plots and graphics page, which may be sufficient for many users requirements. Please note that copyright restrictions apply to the use of these images for commercial purposes. More details on the construction of the dataset are given in the audit page. Details of our uncertainty analysis (at present applied only to seasonal timeseries and frozen to 2001) are available on our uncertainty estimates page. MSU equivalent measures and a discussion of their derivation are available on our MSU equivalents page.

Data files

Maintained by: Holly Titchner Last updated: 10/05/2010 Hosted by: Met Office Hadley Centre

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