ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record, version 2.1

This v2.1 SST_cci Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record (CDR) consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data from the AVHRR series of satellite instruments. It covers the period between 08/1981 and 12/2016. This L3C product provides these SST data on a 0.05 regular latitude-longitude grid and collated to include all orbits for a day (separated into daytime and nighttime files).

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 Version 2.0 product. 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

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-08-02T20:01:15

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-08-02T20:01:15

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7db4459605da4665b6ab9a7102fb4875

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 7db4459605da4665b6ab9a7102fb4875

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/7db4459605da4665b6ab9a7102fb4875

Unavailable - Embury, Owen ( author )

Unavailable - Bulgin, C.E. ( author )

Unavailable - Mittaz, J. ( author )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Keywords

Metop-A
NOAA-7
NOAA-11
AVHRR-2
AVHRR-3
NOAA-16
NOAA-15
NOAA-18
NOAA-14
NOAA-19
NOAA-17
NOAA-12
NOAA-9
SST
ESA Climate Change Initiative

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

orthoimagery

Limitations on Public Access: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: 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.

Spatial representation type: grid

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1981-08-23T23:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20
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Resource Locator: ESA CCI SST documentation
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Resource Locator: ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website
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Resource Locator: 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
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20
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Resource Locator: ESA CCI SST documentation
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Resource Locator: ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website
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Resource Locator: 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
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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).

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File identifier: 7db4459605da4665b6ab9a7102fb4875 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: Collection of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Data of the Global Oceans as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) 1dc189bbf94209b48ed446c0e9a078af

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-02-09T00:01:11

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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