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ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): weekly and monthly sea surface salinity products, v2.31, for 2010 to 2019
The European Space Agency (ESA) Sea Surface Salinity CCI consortium has produced global, level 4, multi-sensor Sea Surface Salinity maps covering the 2010-2019 period.
This dataset collection contains Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) v2.31 data at a spatial resolution of 50km and a time resolution of 1 week. It has been spatially sampled on a 25km EASE (Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid and 1 day of time sampling.
A monthly product is also available, at a spatial resolution of 25 km and a time resolution of 1 month. This has been spatially sampled on a 25 km EASE (Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid and 15 days of time sampling.
In addition to salinity, information on errors are provided (see more in the user guide and product documentation available below and on the Sea Surface Salinity CCI web page).
An overview paper about CCI SSS is now published:
Boutin, J., N. Reul, J. Koehler, A. Martin, R. Catany, S. Guimbard, F. Rouffi, et al. (2021), Satellite-Based Sea Surface Salinity Designed for Ocean and Climate Studies, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(11), e2021JC017676, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017676.
An updated version of CCI SSS (version 3.21) is now available on: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5920a2c77e3c45339477acd31ce62c3c ; version 3 SSS and associated uncertainties are more precise and cover a longer period (Jan 2010-sept 2020); version 3 SSS are provided closer to land than version 2 SSS, with a possible degraded quality. Users might remove these additional near land data by using the lsc_qc flag.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-09-07T13:41:58
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-09-07T13:41:58
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 4ce685bff631459fb2a30faa699f3fc5
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- doi / 10.5285/4ce685bff631459fb2a30faa699f3fc5
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- ESA
- Sea Surface Salinity
- CCI
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2019-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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Product User Guide (coming soon - currently links to project website)
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- OnLine resource
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Boutin, J., N. Reul, J. Koehler, A. Martin, R. Catany, S. Guimbard, F. Rouffi, et al. (2021), Satellite-Based Sea Surface Salinity Designed for Ocean and Climate Studies, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(11), e2021JC017676, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017676.
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- series Series
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 4ce685bff631459fb2a30faa699f3fc5 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:29:03
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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