Temperature measurements from the SMS Gazelle, Valdivia, and SMS Planet in the Indian Ocean

This dataset contains digitized temperature records from the SMS Gazelle (1874–1876), Valdivia (1898–1899), and SMS Planet (1906–1907) observations in the Indian Ocean. The data is described in:

Wenegrat, J.O., E. Bonanno, U. Rack, and G. Gebbie, 2022: A century of observed temperature change in the Indian Ocean. Geophys. Res. Letters. doi:10.1029/2022GL098217.

Data was digitized from the original cruise reports using independent double-entry, and checked for consistency. A number of observations were discarded due to data problems, as described in Wenegrat et al. 2022 (see also associated code repository doi:10.5281/zenodo.6646645).