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Please note, the version 1.0 data described here has now been superseded by the version 1.1 data product as described in Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren,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

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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 )
Author
  Unavailable - Embury, Owen ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Roberts-Jones, J. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Fiedler, E. K. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Bulgin, C.E. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Corlett, Gary K. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Good, S.A. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - McLaren, A. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Rayner, Nick A. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Donlon, Craig ( author )
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  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
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  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
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  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
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notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Level 3
  • sea surface skin temperature
  • sea surface temperature
  • ERS-2
  • Level 3U
  • second
  • ESACCI_SST
  • ERS
  • ATSR-2
  • ATSR2
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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.
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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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  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - Data Center Contact
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Climate Research Data Package

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ESA CCI SST documentation

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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

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The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables</a>; 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

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Quick Start Guide to ESA CCI SST Products

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Latest version of dataset: ESA CCI SST ATSR L3U long term product version 1.1

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Product User Guide

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ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to NEODC by the UK Met Office.
File identifier
2608443849391d2513d903482a19f206 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
Collection of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Data of the Global Oceans as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) 1dc189bbf94209b48ed446c0e9a078af
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:04:51
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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