da85154480423eda8e8022d499abcc06 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 1dc189bbf94209b48ed446c0e9a078af dataset NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-06T02:05:11 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) level 2 pre-processed (L2P) long term product version 1.0 2014-06-26T12:09:28 publication 2014-06-26T12:09:28 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/da85154480423eda8e8022d499abcc06 da85154480423eda8e8022d499abcc06 NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/782305d4-1ded-43f9-a0ed-40cb41ff0a43 doi The ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI) dataset accurately maps the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1991 to 2010, using observations from many satellites. The data provides an independently quantified SST to a quality suitable for climate research. The ESA SST CCI AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) Long Term Product consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data covering the period 08/1991 - 12/2010. The L2P data product provide these SST observations in the satellite swath. This dataset is cited in: Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20 Merchant, Christopher J. Unavailable author Unavailable author Embury, Owen Unavailable author Unavailable author Roberts-Jones, J. Unavailable author Unavailable author Fiedler, E. K. Unavailable author Unavailable author Bulgin, C.E. Unavailable author Unavailable author Corlett, Gary K. Unavailable author Unavailable author Good, S.A. Unavailable author Unavailable author McLaren, A. Unavailable author Unavailable author Rayner, Nick A. Unavailable author Unavailable author Donlon, Craig Unavailable author Unavailable author NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk custodian NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk distributor NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset sea_surface_temperature sea surface temperature sea surface temperature ESACCI_SST sea surface temperature sea surface temperature ESACCI_SST Not defined orthoimagery theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users. otherRestrictions Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_sst_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English imageryBaseMapsEarthCover -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1991-08-31T23:00:00 2010-12-31T00:00:00 Data availability and file format The L2P Data from the series of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors consist of a single orbit per file on an irregular grid with grid cell spacing about 4 km. These start in September 1991. Each file contains two sets of SSTs. The first set provides a measure of the temperature of the skin of the water at the time it was observed; the second set are estimates of the temperature at 20 cm depth and at either 1030 h or 2230 h local time. Each SST has associated with it a total uncertainty estimate, and uncertainty estimates for various contributions to that total uncertainty. The data are stored in NetCDF-4 format files. Data arrays in NetCDF files are known as ‘variables’ and each variable has metadata stored with it. Please read the ESA CCI SST Product User Guide, available here before using the data. There is also a Quick Start Guide here. Access to the ESA SST CCI AVHRR L2P long term product is available through our data browser here or via ftp at /neodc/esacci_sst/data/lt/AVHRR NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK neodc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/da85154480423eda8e8022d499abcc06 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/data/lt/AVHRR DOWNLOAD Download Data download http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1 The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables; R. Hollmann, C.J. Merchant, R. Saunders, C. Downy, M.Buchwitz, A. Cazenave, E. Chuvieco, P. Defourny, G. de Leeuw,R. Forsberg, T.Holzer-Popp, F. Paul, S. Sandven, S. Sathyendranath, M. van Roozendael, W.Wagner; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1 No further details. information http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.20/full Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20 No further details. information http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons License by attribution No further details. information https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-surface-temperature/ ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-CRDP-UKMO-001_Issue-1-Signed-accepted.pdf Climate Research Data Package No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/PUG/documents.htm ESA CCI SST documentation No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7356277/files/SST_CCI-QuickStartGuide-Issue-1.pdf Quick Start Guide to ESA SST CCI Products No further details. information http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-PUG-UKMO-001_Issue-3-signed-accepted.pdf Product User Guide No further details. information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/metadata/sample_images/AVHRR_L2.png Sample Image No further details. information dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to NEODC by the UK Met Office.