ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): GHRSST Multi-Product ensemble (GMPE)

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 GHRSST Multi-Product Ensemble (GMPE) dataset is an ensemble median of the ESA SST CCI spatially complete analysis with other level 4 SST analysis products. Anomalies of the analyses relative to the median, and the ensemble standard deviation are also provided.

All the data in the GMPE files are regridded onto a common 0.25 degree regular latitude longitude grid and there are

SST fields for each day. The GMPE for the ESA SST CCI long term product covers the period September 1991 to December

2010. GMPE files are also available for ESA SST CCI demonstration product 1 (which covers June to August 2007).

Date (Publication): 2014-12-03T12:00:00

Date (Creation): 2014-12-03T12:00:00

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690

Identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/7BAF7407-2F15-406C-8F09-CB9DC10392AA

Author

Unavailable - Fiedler, E. K. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - McLaren, A. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Donlon, Craig ( author )

Custodian

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - custodian

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

pointofContact

NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact

RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Publisher

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - publisher

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned Not planned

Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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.

Spatial representation type: grid Grid

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1991-08-31T23:00:00

End date: 2010-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

The GMPE is formed of daily NetCDF files containing various fields including the median of the ensemble, the anomaly of each ensemble member from that median and the SST gradients from each product. Where we do not have permission to redistribute data, the anomaly and gradient fields are filled with the missing data indicator (which is found in the _FillValue attribute to the variables and is set to -32768). The median_type variable, which reveals which analysis supplied the median at each location, has also been filled with the missing data value.

File names for the GMPE files are in the form 20101231120000-UKMO-L4_GHRSST-SST-GMPEREAN-GLOB-v02.0-fv02.0.nc.The first eight digits give the year (first four digits) followed by the month and the day (two digits each). For the period June to August 2007 there are GMPE files that contain the ESA SST CCI demonstration product 1 in addition to the analyses compared over the full period of the long term product. These have GLOB_DM in their file names in place of GLOB.

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