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ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Analysis 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 Analysis Long Term Product consists of daily, spatially complete fields of sea surface temperature (SST), obtained by combining the orbit data from the AVHRR and ATSR ESA SST CCI Long Term Products, using optimal interpolation to provide SSTs where there were no measurements. These data cover the period between 09/1991 and 12/2010.

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

Please note that this dataset has now been superseded by the version 1.1 product, available from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c65ce27928f34ebd92224c451c2a8bed

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Date (Publication)
2014-06-26T12:13:16
Date (Creation)
2014-06-26T12:13:16
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/916986a220e6bad55411d9407ade347c
Identifier
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 916986a220e6bad55411d9407ade347c
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/878bef44-d32a-40cd-a02d-49b6286f0ea4
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 )
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
  • NOAA-15
  • NOAA-5th
  • Environmental Satellite
  • NOAA-12
  • Metop
  • NOAA-17
  • ATSR
  • Envisat
  • Level 4
  • sea surface temperature
  • sea water temperature
  • Metop-A
  • day
  • AATSR
  • AVHRR
  • ERS-2
  • ERS-1
  • OSTIA
  • ESACCI_SST
  • ERS
  • NOAA-4th
  • NOAA-14
  • NOAA-18
  • NOAA-16
  • SST
  • CCI
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  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
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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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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1991-09-01T00:00:00
End date
2010-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data availability and file format

    The Analysis Product consists of daily, spatially complete fields of SST, obtained by combining the orbit

    data from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) and ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer) Long Term products, using optimal interpolation to provide SSTs where

    there were no measurements (a single file per day; 0.05° regular latitude-

    longitude grid). These data start in September 1991.

    The SSTs correspond approximately to the daily average of the temperature

    of the water at 20 cm depth. Uncertainty estimates are provided for

    each value.

    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 Analysis long term product is available through our data browser here or via ftp at /neodc/esacci_sst/data/lt/Analysis

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Distributor
  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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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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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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Creative Commons License by attribution

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Climate Research Data Package

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ESA CCI SST documentation

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ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website

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Product User Guide

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Sample Image

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Quick Start Guide to ESA SST CCI Products

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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
916986a220e6bad55411d9407ade347c 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
2025-11-15T03:04:50
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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