ISLSCP II Sea Surface Temperature

Description

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important indicator of the state of the earth climate system as well as a key variable in the coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean. Accurate knowledge of SST is essential for climate monitoring, prediction and research. It is also a key surface boundary condition for numerical weather prediction and for other atmospheric simulations using atmospheric general circulation models and regional models. SST also is important in gas exchange between the ocean and atmosphere, including the air-sea flux of carbon. Gridded SST products have been developed to satisfy these needs. There are 3 .zip files provided with this data set.Gridded monthly and weekly sea surface temperature (SST) and long term SST monthly climatology for the period 1971-2000 are provided here. Weekly normalized error variance fields are also provided with the weekly data. The data are derived using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Optimum Interpolation (OI) global sea surface temperature analyses that use seven days of in situ (ship and buoy) and satellite SST observations and SST values derived from sea ice concentration. These analyses are produced weekly using optimum interpolation (OI) on a 1-degree grid. The data sets included in the ISLSCP II data collection are produced using version 2 of the OI analyses, called OIv2. In this data set, the ISLSCP II staff have masked land areas based on the ISLSCP II land/water mask. A file describing the differences between the ISLSCP II mask and the original mask used is provided.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/980
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F980
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/sea_surface_temp_1deg.html
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/comp/0_sea_surface_temp_readme.txt
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/comp/1_sea_surface_temp_doc.pdf
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/comp/sea_surface_temp_1deg.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/980_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=980

Tags

  • atmospheric-radiation
  • biosphere
  • ocean-heat-budget
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • ocean-temperature
  • ocean-chemistry
  • ecological-dynamics
  • earth-science

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