Dataset
ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) Level 2 Preprocessed (L2P) Climate Data Record, version 2.0
Abstract
This v2.0 SST_cci Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) Level 2 Preprocessed (L2P) Climate Data Record (CDR) consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data from the ATSR series of satellite instruments. It covers the period between 11/1991 - 04/2012. This L2P product provides these SST data on the original satellite swath with a single orbit of data 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.
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/ .
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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 project
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF format
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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: 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
- long_name: L2P flags
- var_id: l2p_flags
- long_name: Probability of pixel being clear
- var_id: probability_clear
- units:
- 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
- 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 coordinates
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: Longitude coordinates
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: 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° |