Dataset
ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) Level 3 Uncollated (L3U) Climate Data Record, version 2.1
Abstract
This v2.1 SST_cci Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) Level 3 Uncollated (L3U) Climate Data Record consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data from the ATSR series of satellite instruments. It covers the period between 11/1991 and 04/2012. The L3U products provide these SST data on a 0.05 regular latitude-longitude grid with with a single orbit per file.
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.
This CDR Version 2.1 product supercedes the CDR v2.0 and the Long Term product v1.1. 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: 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
Details
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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
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF format
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Related Documents
Citations: 1
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| Merchant, C.J., Embury, O., Bulgin, C.E., et al. (2019) Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications. Scientific Data 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
Mobile platform operations
| Mobile Platform Operation 1 | Mobile Platform Operation for: Envisat |
| Mobile Platform Operation 2 | Mobile Platform Operation for: ERS-1 |
| Mobile Platform Operation 3 | Mobile Platform Operation for: ERS-2 |
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
- names: wind_speed, 10m wind speed
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Adjustment to alternative sea surface temperature retrieval
- var_id: adjustment_alt
- names: Adjustment to alternative sea surface temperature retrieval
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Adjustment to sea surface temperature at 0.2 m
- var_id: depth_adjustment
- names: Adjustment to sea surface temperature at 0.2 m
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Adjustment, based on comparison to in situ data
- var_id: empirical_adjustment
- names: Adjustment, based on comparison to in situ data
- long_name: L2P flags
- var_id: l2p_flags
- names: L2P flags
- units: degrees_north
- var_id: lat_bnds
- long_name: Latitude cell boundaries
- names: Latitude cell boundaries
- units: degrees_east
- var_id: lon_bnds
- long_name: Longitude cell boundaries
- names: Longitude cell boundaries
- units: kelvin
- long_name: SSES bias estimate
- var_id: sses_bias
- names: SSES bias estimate
- units: kelvin
- long_name: SSES standard deviation
- var_id: sses_standard_deviation
- names: SSES standard deviation
- units: K/K
- long_name: Sensitivity of the retrieval to actual changes in sea surface temperature
- var_id: sst_sensitivity
- names: Sensitivity of the retrieval to actual changes in sea surface temperature
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Time and depth adjustment uncertainty
- var_id: uncertainty_correlated_time_and_depth_adjustment
- names: Time and depth adjustment uncertainty
- var_id: time_bnds
- long_name: Time cell boundaries
- names: Time cell boundaries
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Total uncertainty in sea_surface_temperature
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature_total_uncertainty
- names: Total uncertainty in sea_surface_temperature
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Total uncertainty in sea_surface_temperature_depth
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature_depth_total_uncertainty
- names: Total uncertainty in sea_surface_temperature_depth
- long_name: Type of retrieval used for the alternate SST retrieval
- var_id: alt_sst_retrieval_type
- names: Type of retrieval used for the alternate SST retrieval
- long_name: Type of retrieval used for the primary SST
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature_retrieval_type
- names: Type of retrieval used for the primary SST
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over large scales
- var_id: uncertainty_systematic
- names: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over large scales
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over synoptic scales
- var_id: uncertainty_correlated
- names: Uncertainty from errors likely to be correlated over synoptic scales
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty from errors likely to be uncorrelated between SSTs
- var_id: uncertainty_random
- names: Uncertainty from errors likely to be uncorrelated between SSTs
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be correlated over large scales
- var_id: uncertainty_systematic_alt
- names: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be correlated over large scales
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be correlated over synoptic scales
- var_id: uncertainty_correlated_alt
- names: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be correlated over synoptic scales
- units: kelvin
- long_name: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be uncorrelated between SSTs
- var_id: uncertainty_random_alt
- names: Uncertainty in alternative SST retrieval from errors likely to be uncorrelated between SSTs
- var_id: quality_level
- long_name: quality level of SST pixel
- names: quality level of SST pixel
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface skin temperature
- standard_name: sea_surface_skin_temperature
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature
- names: sea_surface_skin_temperature, sea surface skin temperature
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature anomaly at 0.2 m
- standard_name: sea_water_temperature_anomaly
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature_depth_anomaly
- names: sea surface temperature anomaly at 0.2 m, sea_water_temperature_anomaly
- units: kelvin
- standard_name: sea_water_temperature
- long_name: sea surface temperature at 0.2 m
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature_depth
- names: sea_water_temperature, sea surface temperature at 0.2 m
- units: seconds
- long_name: time difference from reference time
- var_id: sst_dtime
- names: time difference from reference time
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- long_name: Latitude
- names: latitude, Latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: Longitude
- names: longitude, Longitude
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: reference time of sst file
- names: time, reference time of sst file
Temporal Range
1991-11-01T00:00:00
2012-04-08T22:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |