Dear all,

I am trying to use the data provided on the web site (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html), to use OISST for RegCM4, in particular the Long term monthly means as driving data for the SST for the Model RegCM4.0

The problem is that model is not recognising the years. I opened the data files (with Panoply) listed below to identify what the problem was and I realised that the years are marked as 0001, not as 1990 etc. simply because they are 30 year averages. 

'sst.ltm.1961-1990.nc'

'sst.ltm.1971-2000.nc'

Now RegCM4 is apparently set to run NNRP1 with OI_WK or OI2WK, and NNRP1 is available from 1948-2010, but the OISST data available is only available from 19811023. Is there SST available to match at least some years prior to 1981? if so where can i get them please?

Regards,

James