Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that metadata can significantly improve the quality of scientific analyses and that the availability of metadata is particularly important for the study of climate variability. The International ...

Abstract: Development is described of a Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS)?the result of a cooperative project to collect global weather observations taken near the ocean's surface since 1854, primarily from merchant ...

Abstract: he monthly Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset, available on global 2° ? 2° grids, has been revised herein to version 4 (v4) from v3b. Major revisions include updated and substantially more ...

Abstract: escribed herein is the parametric and structural uncertainty quantification for the monthly Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) version 4 (v4). A Monte Carlo ensemble approach was adopted to characterize ...