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ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Analysis long term product version 1.1

The ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI) dataset accurately maps the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1991 to 2010, using observations from many satellites. The data provides an independently quantified SST to a quality suitable for climate research.

The ESA SST CCI Analysis Long Term Product consists of daily, spatially complete fields of sea surface temperature (SST), obtained by combining the orbit data from the AVHRR and ATSR ESA SST CCI Long Term Products, using optimal interpolation to provide SSTs where there were no measurements. These data cover the period between 09/1991 and 12/2010.

The Version 1.1 data is an update of the Version 1.0 dataset.

Version 1.0 of this dataset is cited in: 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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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2015-12-23T14:53:08
Dataset Reference Date ()
2015-12-23T14:53:08
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c65ce27928f34ebd92224c451c2a8bed
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / c65ce27928f34ebd92224c451c2a8bed
Identifier
alternative.identifier / esacci.SST.day.L4.SSTdepth.multi-sensor.multi-platform.OSTIA.1-1.r1.v20160909
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2262690A-B588-4704-B459-39E05527B59A
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )
  Unavailable - Embury, Owen ( author )
  Unavailable - Roberts-Jones, J. ( author )
  Unavailable - Fiedler, E. K. ( author )
  Unavailable - Bulgin, C.E. ( author )
  Unavailable - Corlett, Gary K. ( author )
  Unavailable - Good, S.A. ( author )
  Unavailable - McLaren, A. ( author )
  Unavailable - Rayner, Nick A. ( author )
  Unavailable - Donlon, Craig ( author )
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned
Update scope
dataset
Keywords
  • NOAA-15
  • NOAA-5th
  • Environmental Satellite
  • NOAA-12
  • Metop
  • NOAA-17
  • ATSR
  • Envisat
  • Level 4
  • sea surface temperature
  • sea water temperature
  • Metop-A
  • day
  • AATSR
  • AVHRR
  • ERS-2
  • ERS-1
  • OSTIA
  • ESACCI_SST
  • ERS
  • NOAA-4th
  • NOAA-14
  • NOAA-18
  • NOAA-16
  • Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
  • Along Track Scanning Radiometer - 2
  • Along Track Scanning Radiometer - 1
  • Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer - 1
  • sea water temperature
  • sea surface temperature
  • day
  • ESACCI_SST
  • Envisat
  • ERS-1
  • ERS-2
  • Metop-A
  • NOAA-12
  • NOAA-14
  • NOAA-15
  • NOAA-16
  • NOAA-17
  • NOAA-18
  • Environmental Satellite
  • ERS
  • Metop
  • NOAA-4th
  • NOAA-5th
  • Level 4
  • OSTIA
  • AATSR
  • ATSR
  • ATSR-2
  • AVHRR
  • AVHRR-2
  • AVHRR-3
  • SST
  • CCI
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: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_sst_terms_and_conditions.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
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Begin date
1991-08-31T23:00:00
End date
2010-12-31T00:00:00
 
Code
WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format
  • The CCI SST Analysis Product consists of daily, spatially complete fields of SST, obtained by combining the orbit data from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) and ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer) Long Term products, using optimal interpolation to provide SSTs where there were no measurements (a single file per day; 0.05° regular latitude- longitude grid). These data start in September 1991. The SSTs correspond approximately to the daily average of the temperature of the water at 20 cm depth. Uncertainty estimates are provided for each value.

    The data are stored in NetCDF-4 format files. Data arrays in NetCDF files are known as ‘variables’ and each variable has metadata stored with it. Please read the ESA CCI SST Product User Guide, available in the linked documentation before using the data. There is also a Quick Start Guide.

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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

Detail and access information for the resource

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DOWNLOAD

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ESA CCI SST documentation

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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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Creative Commons License by attribution

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Climate Research Data Package

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The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables; R. Hollmann, C.J. Merchant, R. Saunders, C. Downy, M.Buchwitz, A. Cazenave, E. Chuvieco, P. Defourny, G. de Leeuw,R. Forsberg, T.Holzer-Popp, F. Paul, S. Sandven, S. Sathyendranath, M. van Roozendael, W.Wagner; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1

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Quick Start Guide to ESA SST CCI Products

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Product User Guide

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Sample Image

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ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website

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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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DOWNLOAD

Download Data

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ESA CCI SST documentation

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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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Creative Commons License by attribution

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Climate Research Data Package

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The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables; R. Hollmann, C.J. Merchant, R. Saunders, C. Downy, M.Buchwitz, A. Cazenave, E. Chuvieco, P. Defourny, G. de Leeuw,R. Forsberg, T.Holzer-Popp, F. Paul, S. Sandven, S. Sathyendranath, M. van Roozendael, W.Wagner; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1

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Quick Start Guide to ESA SST CCI Products

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Product User Guide

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Sample Image

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ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website

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Quality Scope
dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to CEDA by the UK Met Office.

Metadata

File identifier
c65ce27928f34ebd92224c451c2a8bed 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
2023-02-28T01:00:07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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