Reading HadCRUT3 Data

A reader inquired about downloading HAdCRUT3 data. I’ve posted up a recipe here http://data.climateaudit.org/scripts/gridcell/collation.hadcrut3.txt .  You will have to download the *.nc version – see the url in the script details and also install the ncdf package in R. I have not worked much with NetCDF formats, but it seems to be pretty easy to retrieve the gridcell information. I’m planning to use this version rather than the ASCII version, which requires extra manipulation. The series is monthly starting in 1850, one year earlier than earlier versions.

This entry was written by Stephen McIntyre, posted on Jan 24, 2007 at 2:03 PM, filed under Satellite and gridcell. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Earle Williams
    Posted Jan 24, 2007 at 3:37 PM | Permalink

    Thanks Steve! I’ll follow that recipe when I get home.

    Regards,
    Earle

  2. Earle Williams
    Posted Jan 27, 2007 at 1:33 PM | Permalink

    Steve M,

    Got it working. Thanks!