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HadSST.4.2.0.0: terms and conditions

HadSST.4.2.0.0 is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under the Open Government Licence v3.

When publishing work using the data, please include the following citations:

Kennedy, J. J., Rayner, N. A., Atkinson, C. P., & Killick, R. E., 2019. An Ensemble Data Set of Sea Surface Temperature Change from 1850: The Met Office Hadley Centre HadSST.4.0.0.0 Data Set. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029867

Sandford, C., and Rayner, N., 2026. Addressing the World War 2 Warm Anomaly in HadSST.4.2.0.0. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.70388.

Users are kindly requested to include the following acknowledgement:

HadSST.4.2.0.0 data were obtained from http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadsst4 on [date downloaded] and are © British Crown Copyright, Met Office [year of first publication], provided under an Open Government Licence, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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