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Dataset

 

ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) product, version 3.0

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Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
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Abstract

This dataset provides global sea surface temperatures (SST) from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometers (AMSR), presented on the native geometry of observation (Level 2), and spanning 2002 to 2017.

The SST CCI AMSR product contains two different SST estimates. The first is the subskin temperature of the water at the time it was observed. The second is an estimate of the temperature at 20 cm depth at either 1030h or 2230h local time, which closely approximates the daily mean SST. Each SST value has an associated total uncertainty estimate, and uncertainty estimates for various contributions to that total. Additionally, the AMSR files contain a satellite estimate of the surface wind speed.

The dataset has been produced as part of the version 3 Climate Data Record (CDR) produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Sea Surface Temperature project (ESA SST_cci). The CDR accurately maps the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1980 to 2021 using observations from many satellites, with a high degree of independence from in situ measurements. 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/

When citing this dataset please also cite the associated data paper:

Embury, O., Merchant, C.J., Good, S.A., Rayner, N.A., Høyer, J.L., Atkinson, C., Block, T., Alerskans, E., Pearson, K.J., Worsfold, M., McCarroll, N., Donlon, C. Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1980 for climate applications. Scientific Data 11, 326 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03147-w

Citable as:  [ PROVISIONAL ] Alerskans, E.; Høyer, J.L.; Embury, O. (9999): ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) product, version 3.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/15a170dad3064fefa8936bd50877a93e
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, SST, AMSR, L2P

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: 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.

Data Quality:
For information on data quality see the linked Product Validation and Intercomparison report (PVIR) and the Climate Assessment Report (CAR)
File Format:
netCDF-4 classic following: Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions, GHRSST Data Specification 2.0, and SST CCI Product Specification.

Process overview

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

Computation Element: 1

Title Derivation of the ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) product, version 3.0
Abstract For information on the derivation of the SST CCI AMSR L2P product, see the SST CCI project documentation.
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None

No variables found.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-06-01T00:00:00
End time:
2017-10-26T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°