Data Sources for Surface Temperature
This list provides sources for openly accessible data sets with worldwide coverage for which metadata is available. It is curated by the respective GCOS ECV Steward(s). The list does not claim to be complete. Anyone with a suitable dataset who wishes it to be added to this list should contact the GCOS Secretariat.
Gridded In Situ:
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land surface air temperature data set (CRUTEM4)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/
- GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
- Gridded Temperature And Precipitation Climate Extremes Indices (Climdex Data)
http://www.climdex.org/datasets.html
- Gridded Night Marine Air Temperature (HadNMAT2) Global Temperature
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadnmat2/
- Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit global historical surface temperature (HadCRUT4)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/
- Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Global Temperature
https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.html
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Temperature
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/marineocean-data/noaa-global-surf…
In Situ:
- Integrated Surface Database (ISD) of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd/data-access
- Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily) of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/global-historical-climatology-network-dai…
- Hadley Centre Integrated Surface Database (HadISD)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/
- International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds548.0/
- International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI)
http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/
Reanalysis:
- REANALYSES.ORG (Inventory for Reanalysis)