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HadIOD: terms and conditions

HadIOD is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under a Non-Commerical Government Licence. Please do read this. Any onward licencing of the information must be for Non-Commercial purposes only.

When publishing work using the data, please quote the product version number, the date the data were downloaded and cite the following:

Atkinson, C. P., N. A. Rayner, J. J. Kennedy and S. A. Good, 2014. An Integrated Database of Ocean Temperature and Salinity Observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119, 7139-7163, doi:10.1002/2014JC010053

For example:

'The observations used are taken from HadIOD [Atkinson et al., 2014] version 1.2.0.0; downloaded from https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadiod on [date downloaded].'

Users must also acknowledge the following:

'HadIOD.[version number] data were obtained from https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadiod/ on [date downloaded] and are © British Crown Copyright, Met Office, [year of first publication], provided under a Non-Commercial Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/.'

Please see the product user guide for further information about citing HadIOD (e.g. citing the bias corrections used).

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