CRU Surface Temperature Anomalies (1851-2002)

SOURCE: Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones and A. Moberg:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk

Reference: Jones, P.D. and A. Moberg, 2003: Hemispheric and Large-Scale
Surface Air Temperature Variations: An Extensive Revision and an Update to 
2001, J. Clim., 16, 206-223.

FORMAT: netCDF

GRID:   Global - 5 degree grid [lon=72, lat=36]

LEVELS: Surface

FIELDS: Description                           Name      Units         Levels
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	Land Air Temperature Anomalies         TA   	deg C      surface

        Global Temperature Anomalies           TA         deg C      surface

        1961-1990 Surface Temperature Climatology  T    deg C      surface 



TIMES:  monthly 

MSS Directory: /CA/CRU/

Filename: TAland_18512002.nc for Land Air Temperature Anomalies
          TAglob_18702002.nc for Global Temperature Anomalies
          Tclim_19611990.nc for Absolute Temperatures for the 1961-1990 base period

	Note: the original crutem2.nc, crutem2v.nc, hadcrut2.nc, hadcrut2v.nc,
absolute.nc files are also available.  
These files from http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk were updated on the NCAR MSS 09/13/05.

Current holdings:  Jan 1851 -  Apr 2003
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