monthly Sea Ice Concentration from NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2: SST fields updated from version 1 with more COADS data, new sea-ice to SST conversion algorithm, and 1971-2000 climatology.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Nov 1981) to (Dec 2010) by 1.0 N= 350 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1.0 N= 180 pts :grid
Other Info
- scale_max
- 100
- scale_min
- 0
- units
- percent
- standard units*
- 0.01
References
Reynolds, R.W., N.A. Rayner, T.M. Smith, D.C. Stokes, and W. Wang, 2002: An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate. J. Climate, 15, 1609-1625.
Last updated: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:04:01 GMT
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