ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) level 3 uncollated data (L3U) long-term product version 1.0

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 ATSR (Along-Track Scanning Radiometer) Long Term Product Version 1.0 consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data covering the period 08/1991 - 12/2010. The L3U data product provides these SST data regridded onto a global longitude-latitude grid.

Please note, the version 1.0 data described here has now been superseded by the version 1.1 data product as described in Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren,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

Date (Publication): 2014-06-26T12:12:02

Date (Creation): 2014-06-26T12:12:02

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206

Identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/fe7a9d81-cfc0-4023-90da-0be37b803bc7

Author

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )

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Unavailable - Embury, Owen ( author )

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Unavailable - Roberts-Jones, J. ( author )

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Unavailable - Fiedler, E. K. ( author )

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Unavailable - Bulgin, C.E. ( author )

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Unavailable - Corlett, Gary K. ( author )

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Unavailable - Good, S.A. ( author )

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Unavailable - McLaren, A. ( author )

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Unavailable - Rayner, Nick A. ( author )

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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

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - distributor

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

+44(0)1235 446432

pointofContact

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - point_of_contact

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

+44(0)1235 446432

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

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

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: 1991-07-31T23:00:00

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Data availability and file format

The L3U (Level 3 Uncollated) data from the series of Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) sensors consists of a single orbit per file on a 0.05° regular latitude-longitude grid. These start in August 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 ATSR L3U long term product is available through our data browser here or via ftp at /neodc/esacci_sst/data/lt/ATSR/L3U/v01.0

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