Met Office - Global sea Ice Coverage and Sea Surface Temperature data (1856-present)

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (GISST) climatologies Sea Ice coverage (GICE). The data available is grouped into two sections: - Global Ocean Surface Temperature (GISST), a set of SST data in monthly 1 degree area grids, for 1871 to the present. - Global sea-Ice content, (GICE), monthly 1 deg. grids of ice coverage for 1871 to the present. This data is provided by the UK Meteorological Office. Link to the data set home page: "http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/gisst/" [Summary Extracted from the BADC Home Page]