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HadSST4 is subject to Crown copyright protection and is provided under the Open Government License v3.

When publishing work using the data, please use the following citation:
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

Users are kindly requested to include the following acknowledgement:

HadSST.[version number] 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 License, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/“

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