JISAO data


NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) surface temperature anomalies

Mean December through April Anomaly, 1979-97

The GISS global surface temperature anomaly data set comes as land data or as land and ocean data, and in two different spatial resolutions: 2.5-degree latitude-longitude (1979-97), and a second, equal-area (and difficult to use) (1880-present) resolution. This data and its documentation are available online.

The 2.5-degree latitude-longitude resolution ocean and land data is available as:

  • NetCDF file (4.7 Mbytes).
  • FORTRAN-binary file (<10 Mbytes)
    The netCDF file contains data through April of 1997. All errors in the netCDF file are due to Todd Mitchell.


    July 1997
    Todd P. Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
    JISAO data