Dataset
SISTeR: QM2 Cruise 27, v2.5
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Preview
Publication Date:
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Abstract
Skin Sea Surface Temperature data from the SISTeR instrument (Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer). This dataset contains SST data of the east Atlantic, Indian Ocean, west Pacific and Australia measured by SISTeR on-board RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) between 11 January 2024 and 28 April 2024.
Citable as: [ PROVISIONAL ] Nightingale, T.; Lee, A. (9999): SISTeR: QM2 Cruise 27, v2.5. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/27fee373d42b4dada1aeb10bc729c98f
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: SLSTR, Validation, RMS Queen Mary 2, SST
Details
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No related previous identifiers.
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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/missing_licence.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Measurements taken on the QM2 and processed with SISTeR processor version 2.5.1 to levels 2R and 3R as specified by the GHRSST recommended format. Ship time and services were provided by Cunard Line. |
| Data Quality: |
Data files from this cruise have been assigned level 3: no problems with the data.
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| File Format: |
NetCDF
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Related Documents
| Cruise 27 log, v20250228 |
Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer (SISTeR) | Deployed on: RMS Queen Mary 2 |
| Output Description | None |
- units: days
- long_name: Julian day
- var_id: julian_day
- units: degrees
- long_name: instrument view azimuthal orientation
- standard_name: sensor_azimuth_angle
- var_id: view_azimuth_angle
- units: degrees
- long_name: instrument viewing angle from nadir
- standard_name: sensor_view_angle
- var_id: view_nadir_angle
- long_name: measurement quality value
- var_id: quality_level
- units: degrees
- long_name: platform course over ground
- standard_name: platform_course
- var_id: course_over_ground
- units: m/s
- long_name: platform speed over ground
- standard_name: platform_speed_wrt_ground
- var_id: speed_over_ground
- standard_name: platform_id
- var_id: platform_id
- standard_name: platform_name
- var_id: platform_name
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature
- standard_name: sea_surface_skin_temperature
- var_id: sea_surface_temperature
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature random uncertainty
- var_id: sst_random_uncertainty
- standard_name: sea_surface_skin_temperature status_flag
- var_id: sst_flags
- long_name: sea surface temperature status flags
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature systematic uncertainty
- var_id: sst_systematic_uncertainty
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature total uncertainty
- standard_name: sea_surface_skin_temperature standard_error
- var_id: sst_total_uncertainty
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: measurement time
- units: milliseconds
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2024-01-11T00:00:00
End time:
2024-04-28T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |
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