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ARC: Level 3 monthly sea surface temperature data

Update Frequency: As Needed
Latest Data Update: 2013-04-08
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2013-04-19
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 3 Files | 134MB
Abstract

The AATSR Reprocessing for Climate (ARC) dataset consists of Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer multimission data which has been reprocessed using various algorithms and in-situ contemporaneous measurements, to provide update retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and assess their accuracy.

This dataset contains Level 3 monthly sea surface temperature data produced in ARC project.

The main ARC objective was to reduce regional biases in retrieved sea surface temperature (SST) to less than 0.1 K for all global oceans while creating a very homogeneous record with a stability (lack of drift in the observing system and analysis) of 0.05 K decade.

Citable as:  MacCallum, S. (2013): ARC: Level 3 monthly sea surface temperature data. NERC Earth Observation Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c329ca3377e9c14a7619df5a3d24618b
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ARC, Sea Surface Temperature

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/neodc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_ce2d162c-a8fd-11e2-82f7-00163e251233
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: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

ARC data was derived from the aatsr_multimission dataset held at the NEODC. ARC also uses UKMO Buoy data to provide ground calibration data (GHRSST). Data was supplied to the NEODC by Owen Embury at the University of Edinburgh.
Data Quality:
ARC data is reprocessed (A)ATSR series data with the intention of providing better constrained SST estimates than the original ESA SSE AATSR product. ARC data incorporates improved algorithms for estimation of SST using ground based in -situ SST measurements (GHRSST) and estimation of air column Saharan dust content.
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted

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Process overview

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

Computation Element: 1

Title ARC processor deployed on unknown computer
Abstract This computation involved: ARC processor.
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None
  • standard_name: sea_surface_temperature
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: sea surface temperature
  • var_id: tos
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: sea_surface_temperature_standard_deviation
  • standard_name: sea_surface_temperature_standard_deviation
  • var_id: tosStddev

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat_bnds
  • long_name: latitude bounds of cell
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon_bnds
  • long_name: longitude bounds of cell
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time_bnds
  • long_name: start and end times of averaging period
  • long_name: time
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1997-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2011-12-16T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

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