HadCRUT5 Global Surface Temperature

HadCRUT5 Global Surface Temperature

HadCRUT5, from the Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, is a dataset of global historical surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990, published as gridded data and global/regional time series (CSV and NetCDF). Distinct from met-office-weather-datahub (forecast and observation APIs).

Coverage

The HadCRUT5 page says: "Data are available for each month from January 1850 onwards, on a 5 degree grid and as global and regional average time series." It adds: "Both forms of the dataset are presented as an ensemble of 200 dataset realisations that sample the distribution of uncertainty." Releases are versioned (the page names the current version); a fixed update schedule is Not stated.

Verdict

CSV and NetCDF downloads of HadCRUT5 global, hemispheric and gridded surface temperature anomalies from 1850. Licensed OGL-UK-3.0: the terms page says: "HadCRUT5 is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under the Open Government License v3." and "A term of the licence is that users must include the following acknowledgement when the data are used:" (the acknowledgement names the HadCRUT version, the download source and date, and British Crown Copyright, Met Office, under the Open Government Licence). Rate limits: Not stated (static files). Signal Lab links only.