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.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time
- grid: /T (pentads since 1960-01-01) periodic (1-5 Jan) to (27-31 Dec) by 1.0 N= 73 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
- bufferwordsize
- 8
- CE
- null
- colorscalename
- sstcolorscale
- CS
- null
- datatype
- doublearraytype
- file_missing_value
- -999.90002
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- degree_Celsius
- standard units*
- degree_Kelvin
- history
- Averaged over T[Jan, 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