mean Sea Surface Temperature

monthly sst Sea Surface Temperature 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.

Documents

overviewan outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset

Independent Variables (Grids)

Latitude (latitude) grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1.0 N= 180 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize
8
CE
null
CS
null
file_missing_value
-999.90002
missing_value
NaN
standard units
degree_Kelvin above 273.15
history
Averaged over X[0, 0] T[Nov 1981, Dec 2010] minimum 0.0% data present

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
Expires: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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