mean Sea Surface Temperature

pentad-climatology 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.

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Independent Variables (Grids)

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

bufferwordsize
8
CE
null
CS
null
file_missing_value
-999.90002
missing_value
NaN
standard units
degree_Kelvin above 273.15
history
mean [ NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2 pentad-climatology sst ]
Averaged over T[Jan, Dec] minimum 0.0% data present
Averaged over T[1200 29 Dec - 1200 3 Jan, 2400 31 Dec] 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, 09 Jan 2018 17:35:48 GMT

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