2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 1dc189bbf94209b48ed446c0e9a078af dataset NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-03-16T11:47:52 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) level 3 uncollated data (L3U) long-term product version 1.0 2014-06-26T12:12:02 publication 2014-06-26T12:12:02 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206 2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206 NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/fe7a9d81-cfc0-4023-90da-0be37b803bc7 doi The ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI) dataset accurately maps the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1991 to 2010 using observations from many satellites. The data provides an independently quantified SST to a quality suitable for climate research. The ESA SST CCI ATSR (Along-Track Scanning Radiometer) Long Term Product Version 1.0 consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data covering the period 08/1991 - 12/2010. The L3U data product provides these SST data regridded onto a global longitude-latitude grid. Please note, the version 1.0 data described here has now been superseded by the version 1.1 data product as described in Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20 Merchant, Christopher J. Unavailable author Unavailable author Embury, Owen Unavailable author Unavailable author Roberts-Jones, J. Unavailable author Unavailable author Fiedler, E. K. Unavailable author Unavailable author Bulgin, C.E. Unavailable author Unavailable author Corlett, Gary K. Unavailable author Unavailable author Good, S.A. Unavailable author Unavailable author McLaren, A. Unavailable author Unavailable author Rayner, Nick A. Unavailable author Unavailable author Donlon, Craig Unavailable author Unavailable author NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk custodian NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk distributor NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset Level 3 sea surface skin temperature sea surface temperature ERS-2 Level 3U second ESACCI_SST ERS ATSR-2 ATSR2 Not defined orthoimagery theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users. otherRestrictions Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_sst_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English imageryBaseMapsEarthCover -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1991-07-31T23:00:00 2010-12-31T00:00:00 Data availability and file format The L3U (Level 3 Uncollated) data from the series of Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) sensors consists of a single orbit per file on a 0.05&#176; regular latitude-longitude grid. These start in August 1991. Each file contains two sets of SSTs. The first set provides a measure of the temperature of the skin of the water at the time it was observed; the second set are estimates of the temperature at 20 cm depth and at either 1030 h or 2230 h local time. Each SST has associated with it a total uncertainty estimate, and uncertainty estimates for various contributions to that total uncertainty. The data are stored in NetCDF-4 format files. Data arrays in NetCDF files are known as &#8216;variables&#8217; and each variable has metadata stored with it. Please read the ESA CCI SST Product User Guide, available here before using the data. There is also a Quick Start Guide here. Access to the ESA SST CCI ATSR L3U long term product is available through our data browser here or via ftp at /neodc/esacci_sst/data/lt/ATSR/L3U/v01.0 NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/data/lt/ATSR/L3U/v01.0 DOWNLOAD Download Data download http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons License by Attribution No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-CRDP-UKMO-001_Issue-1-Signed-accepted.pdf Climate Research Data Package No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/PUG/documents.htm ESA CCI SST documentation No further details. information http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.20/full Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20 No further details. information http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1 The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables</a>; R. Hollmann, C.J. Merchant, R. Saunders, C. Downy, M.Buchwitz, A. Cazenave, E. Chuvieco, P. Defourny, G. de Leeuw,R. Forsberg, T.Holzer-Popp, F. Paul, S. Sandven, S. Sathyendranath, M. van Roozendael, W.Wagner; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1 No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7356277/files/SST_CCI-QuickStartGuide-Issue-1.pdf Quick Start Guide to ESA CCI SST Products No further details. information http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5a807d9ebb2d67b5472624e9639253a9 Latest version of dataset: ESA CCI SST ATSR L3U long term product version 1.1 No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-PUG-UKMO-001_Issue-3-signed-accepted.pdf Product User Guide No further details. information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/metadata/sample_images/ATSR_1.0.png Sample Image No further details. information https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-surface-temperature/ ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website No further details. information dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to NEODC by the UK Met Office.