An Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets

Jones (CRU) Sea Level Pressure
Variable(s) Sea Level Pressure
Land or Ocean Land and Ocean
Current Period of Record 1873-Current
Resolution Monthly, 15o-90oN, 0o-350oE, 5o x 10o lat/lon
Description: Individual station pressure data used to form reconstruction of monthly mean sea level grid-point pressure using multivariate regressions technique.
Reference: Jones, P.D., 1987: The early twentieth century Arctic High - fact or fiction? Climate Dynamics 1, 63-75.
Basnett, T.A. and Parker, D.E., 1997: Development of the Global Mean Sea Level Pressure Data Set GMSLP2. Climatic Research Technical Note No. 79. Hadley Centre, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, 16pp plus Appendices.
Data Set Location: Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (ascii format)

Technical Overview Expert User Guidance Relevant Articles Coverage Maps


Technical Overview

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Expert User Guidance
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Relevant Arcticles
  • Basnett, T.A. and Parker, D.E., 1997: Development of the Global Mean Sea Level Pressure Data Set GMSLP2. Climatic Research Technical Note No. 79. Hadley Centre, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, 16pp plus Appendices.
  • Jones, P.D., 1987: The early twentieth century Arctic High - fact or fiction? Climate Dynamics 1, 63-75.
  • Trenberth, K.E. and Paolino, D.A., 1980: The Northern Hemisphere sea-level pressure data set: trends, errors and discontinuities. Monthly Weather Review 104, 1354-1361.
  • Williams, J. and van Loon, H., 1976: An examination of the Northern Hemisphere sea-level pressure data set. Monthly Weather Review 104, 1354-1361.

Coverage Maps

Click on the links below to view data coverage maps for a particular time period. Percentage of non-missing data per time period is plotted.

(1873-1880, 1881-1900, 1901-1920)

(1921-1940, 1941-1960, 1961-1980)

(1981-2000)

Updated: 10/16/03
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