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ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record, version 2.0

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2019-03-27
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2019-08-02
DOI Publication Date: 2019-08-22
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 51.36K Files | 2TB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

This v2.0 SST_cci Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record (CDR) consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data from the AVHRR series of satellite instruments. It covers the period 08/1981 - 12/2016. This L3C product provides these SST data on a 0.05 regular latitude-longitude grid and collated to include all orbits for a day (separated into daytime and nighttime files).

The dataset has been produced as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Sea Surface Temperature project(ESA SST_cci). The data products from SST CCI accurately map the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1981 to 2016 using observations from many satellites. The data provide independently quantified SSTs to a quality suitable for climate research.

Data are made freely and openly available under a Creative Commons License by Attribution (CC By 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

Citable as:  Embury, O.; Bulgin, C.E.; Mittaz, J. (2019): ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record, version 2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 22 August 2019. doi:10.5285/13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: SST, ESA Climate Change Initiative

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
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(s):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_sst_terms_and_conditions_v2.pdf
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal project and the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).
Data Quality:
as provided by the CCI SST team
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 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
 ESA CCI SST documentation
 Creative Commons License by attribution
 Product User Guide
 Merchant, C.J., Embury, O., Bulgin, C.E., Block T., Corlett, G.K., Fiedler, E., Good, S.A., Mittaz, J., Rayner, N.A., Berry, D., Eastwood, S., Taylor, M., Tsushima, Y., Waterfall, A., Wilson, R., Donlon, C. Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications, Scientific Data 6:223 (2019). http://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x
 ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website

Process overview

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

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-11
Mobile Platform Operation 2 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-9
Mobile Platform Operation 3 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-7
Mobile Platform Operation 4 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-15
Mobile Platform Operation 5 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-17
Mobile Platform Operation 6 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-12
Mobile Platform Operation 7 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-16
Mobile Platform Operation 8 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-14
Mobile Platform Operation 9 Mobile Platform Operation for: Metop-A
Mobile Platform Operation 10 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-18
Mobile Platform Operation 11 Mobile Platform Operation for: NOAA-19

Computation Element: 1

Title CCI SST Processor
Abstract This computation involved: CCI SST Processor. This processor was developed in the ESA Climate Change Initiative, Sea Surface Temperature Project
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None
  • units: m s-1
  • standard_name: wind_speed
  • var_id: wind_speed
  • long_name: 10m wind speed
  • long_name: L2P flags
  • var_id: l2p_flags
  • units: degrees_north
  • var_id: lat_bnds
  • long_name: Latitude cell boundaries
  • units: degrees_east
  • var_id: lon_bnds
  • long_name: Longitude cell boundaries
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: SSES bias estimate
  • var_id: sses_bias
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: SSES standard deviation
  • var_id: sses_standard_deviation
  • units: K/K
  • long_name: Sensitivity to SST
  • var_id: sensitivity
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: Time and depth adjustment uncertainty
  • var_id: adjustment_uncertainty
  • var_id: time_bnds
  • long_name: Time cell boundaries
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: Total uncertainty in sea_surface_temperature_depth
  • var_id: sst_depth_total_uncertainty
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over large scales
  • var_id: large_scale_correlated_uncertainty
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over synoptic scales
  • var_id: synoptically_correlated_uncertainty
  • units: kelvin
  • var_id: uncorrelated_uncertainty
  • long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be uncorrelated between SSTs
  • long_name: aerosol dynamic indicator
  • var_id: aerosol_dynamic_indicator
  • units:
  • var_id: quality_level
  • long_name: quality level of SST pixel
  • units: kelvin
  • long_name: sea surface skin temperature
  • standard_name: sea_surface_skin_temperature
  • var_id: sea_surface_temperature
  • units: kelvin
  • standard_name: sea_water_temperature
  • long_name: sea surface temperature at 0.2 m
  • var_id: sea_surface_temperature_depth
  • units: seconds
  • long_name: time difference from reference time
  • var_id: sst_dtime

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • long_name: Latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • long_name: Longitude
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: reference time of sst file
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1981-08-24T00:00:00
End time:
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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