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I am using the HadCRUT3, CRUTEM3 or HadSST2 data, and I have discovered that not all gridboxes that have an anomaly in them have an associated uncertainty. What is going on?

April 26, 2017anomaly associated Data going hadcrut3 uncertainty

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I am using the HadCRUT3, CRUTEM3 or HadSST2 data, and I have discovered that not all gridboxes that have an anomaly in them have an associated uncertainty. What is going on?

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A. In some regions there were too few observations in the historical record to estimate the variables needed to estimate the uncertainties. This occurs in sparsely sampled regions such as the high latitude oceans. We are working on filling these gaps.