Dataset
ARC: Level 3 monthly sea surface temperature data
Abstract
The AATSR Reprocessing for Climate (ARC) dataset consists of Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer multimission data which has been reprocessed using various algorithms and in-situ contemporaneous measurements, to provide update retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and assess their accuracy.
This dataset contains Level 3 monthly sea surface temperature data produced in ARC project.
The main ARC objective was to reduce regional biases in retrieved sea surface temperature (SST) to less than 0.1 K for all global oceans while creating a very homogeneous record with a stability (lack of drift in the observing system and analysis) of 0.05 K decade.
Details
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/neodc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_ce2d162c-a8fd-11e2-82f7-00163e251233
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| 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): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
ARC data was derived from the aatsr_multimission dataset held at the NEODC. ARC also uses UKMO Buoy data to provide ground calibration data (GHRSST). Data was supplied to the NEODC by Owen Embury at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Data Quality: |
ARC data is reprocessed (A)ATSR series data with the intention of providing better constrained SST estimates than the original ESA SSE AATSR product. ARC data incorporates improved algorithms for estimation of SST using ground based in -situ SST measurements (GHRSST) and estimation of air column Saharan dust content.
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| File Format: |
Data are netCDF formatted
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Related Documents
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: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ERS-2) |
| Mobile Platform Operation 3 | Mobile Platform Operation for: European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1) |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | ARC processor deployed on unknown computer |
| Abstract | This computation involved: ARC processor. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
- standard_name: sea_surface_temperature
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea surface temperature
- var_id: tos
- units: kelvin
- long_name: sea_surface_temperature_standard_deviation
- standard_name: sea_surface_temperature_standard_deviation
- var_id: tosStddev
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat_bnds
- long_name: latitude bounds of cell
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon_bnds
- long_name: longitude bounds of cell
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time_bnds
- long_name: start and end times of averaging period
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
Temporal Range
1997-01-01T00:00:00
2011-12-16T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |