Sea Surface Temperatures

Sea Surface Temperatures

This dataset provides daily estimates of global sea surface temperature (SST) based on observations from multiple satellite sensors.

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Summary Specification:

0.05 degree x 0.05 degree, EPSG:4326, Daily, 1981 onwards

Obtaining the data:

Data is available on CEDA (https://www.ceda.ac.uk/):

1981-2016: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/62c0f97b1eac4e0197a674870afe1ee6

2017-: /gws/nopw/j04/cds_c3s_sst/public/data/L4_v2.1

The data can also be obtained from the Climate Data Store:

https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-sea-surface-temperature?tab=overview

The data can also be obtained through a regridding service, see:

https://surftemp.net

Citation(s):

Merchant, C.J., Embury, O., Bulgin, C.E., Block, T., Corlett, G.K., Fiedler, E., Good, S.A., Mittaz, J., Rayner, N.A., Berry, D., Eastwood, S., Taylor, M., Tsushima, Y., Waterfall, A., Wilson, R. and Donlon, C. (2019), Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications. Scientific Data 6, 223, doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x

License(s):

Copernicus license, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)