MOHSST6 definition

MOHSST6 (Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature) contains 5 degree grids of monthly mean global sea surface temperature anomalies for the period 1856 to present.

These temperature anomalies are with respect to 1961-1990 normals.

For information relative to the file format, please refer to the documentation and the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change observational datasets site - www.hadobs.org..