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ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Monthly sea surface salinity product, v03.21, for 2010 to 2020

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2021-09-16
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2021-10-08
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 257 Files | 1GB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

The ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (CCI) consortium has produced global, level 4, multi-sensor Sea Surface Salinity maps covering the 2010-2020 period.

This dataset provides Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data at a spatial resolution of 25 km and a time resolution of 1 month. This has been spatially sampled on a 25 km EASE (Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid and 15 days of time sampling. A weekly product is also available. In addition to salinity, information on errors are provided. For more information, see the user guide and other product documentation available from the linked Sea Surface Salinity CCI web page.

Compared to the previous version of the data, version 3 SSS and associated uncertainties are more precise and cover a longer period (Jan 2010-sept 2020); version 3 SSS are provided closer to land than version 2 SSS, with a possible degraded quality. Users might remove these additional near land data by using the lsc_qc flag.

Citable as:  Boutin, J.; Vergely, J.-L.; Reul, N.; Catany, R.; Koehler, J.; Martin, A.; Rouffi, F.; Arias, M.; Chakroun, M.; Corato, G.; Estella-Perez, V.; Guimbard, S.; Hasson, A.; Josey, S.; Khvorostyanov, D.; Kolodziejczyk, N.; Mignot, J.; Olivier, L.; Reverdin, G.; Stammer, D.; Supply, A.; Thouvenin-Masson, C.; Turiel, A.; Vialard, J.; Cipollini, P.; Donlon, C. (2021): ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Monthly sea surface salinity product, v03.21, for 2010 to 2020. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7da8723b16e94771be1a2717d8a6e2fe
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA Climate Change Initiative, CCI, Sea Surface Salinity

Details

Previous Info:

2021-10-08 This dataset forms part of the ESA Sea Surface Salinity v03.21 products, which can be cited with the following DOI: 10.5285/592… Show More 2021-10-08 This dataset forms part of the ESA Sea Surface Salinity v03.21 products, which can be cited with the following DOI: 10.5285/5920a2c77e3c45339477acd31ce62c3c. Show Less

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_salinity_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data are provided by the Sea Surface Salinity project as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme, and delivered for long-term archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Data Quality:
Data are as provided by the CCI Sea Surface Salinity project team. Estimates of uncertainty are provided in the data files, see documentation for further information
File Format:
Data are netCDf formatted.

Related Documents

 ESA CCI Sea Surface Salinity project website
 Product User Guide
 Boutin, J., N. Reul, J. Koehler, A. Martin, R. Catany, S. Guimbard, F. Rouffi, et al. (2021), Satellite-Based Sea Surface Salinity Designed for Ocean and Climate Studies, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(11), e2021JC017676, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017676.
 Algorithm Theoretical Development Basis Document

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

MIRAS Deployed on: SMOS
SMAP Deployed on: SMAP
Aquarius Deployed on: SAC-D

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1 SMOS satellite orbit details

Computation Element: 1

Title CCI Sea Surface Salinity retrieval
Abstract ESA CCI Sea Surface Salinity ECV Data has been produced at a spatial resolution of 50 km spatially resampled on 25 km EASE grid with a) a time resolution of 1 week and 1 day of time sampling and b) a time resolution of 1 month and 15 days of time sampling. For details of the algorithm see the documentation from the CCI Sea Surface Salinity project.
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None
  • long_name: Count of the Number of Outliers within this bin cell
  • var_id: noutliers
  • names: Count of the Number of Outliers within this bin cell
  • long_name: Ice Sea Contamination Quality Check, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • var_id: isc_qc
  • names: Ice Sea Contamination Quality Check, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • long_name: Land Sea Contamination Quality Check, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • var_id: lsc_qc
  • names: Land Sea Contamination Quality Check, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • var_id: sss
  • standard_name: sea_surface_salinity
  • long_name: Multi-Satellite Sea Surface Salinity
  • names: sea_surface_salinity, Multi-Satellite Sea Surface Salinity
  • var_id: total_nobs
  • long_name: Number of SSS in the time interval
  • names: Number of SSS in the time interval
  • units: %
  • var_id: pct_var
  • long_name: Percentage of SSS_variability that is expected to be not explained by the products
  • names: Percentage of SSS_variability that is expected to be not explained by the products
  • long_name: Sea Surface Salinity Quality, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • var_id: sss_qc
  • names: Sea Surface Salinity Quality, 0=Good; 1=Bad
  • long_name: Sea Surface Salinity Random Error
  • var_id: sss_random_error
  • names: Sea Surface Salinity Random Error

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • names: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • names: longitude
  • long_name: time
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • names: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2010-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2020-09-30T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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Publishers (1)