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Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) Re-processing for Climate (ARC) Dataset of Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals
The AATSR Reprocessing for Climate (ARC) dataset consists of Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) multimission data which has been reprocessed using various algorithms and in-situ contemporaneous measurements, to provide update retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and assess their accuracy. ARC reprocesses the ATSR1, ATSR2 and AATSR data using new cloud detection and SST retrievals.
The main ARC objective was to reduce regional biases in retrieved sea surface temperature (SST) to less than 0.1 K for all global oceans while creating a very homogeneous record with a stability (lack of drift in the observing system and analysis) of 0.05 K decade.
The Level 3 ARC data products are available for ATSR1, ATSR2 and AATSR and in the version 1 release are currently available from 1991 to 2009, producing a homogeneous record of sea surface temperature for this period. Version 1.1 data are available. The previous version 1 data continues to be available. The ARC project was led by Chris Merchant of the University of Edinburgh/NCEO and funded by NERC and the UK Government.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2011-07-06T13:45:37
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-07-06T13:45:37
- Identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / ff8a7f27b827c108dd9756adffaaa942
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
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- Keywords
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- AATSR
- ARC
- Sea Surface Temperature
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1991-05-31T23:00:00
- End date
- 2012-04-07T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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The Obs4Mips 503 project
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Embury, O; Merchant, C; Berry, D & Kent, E; A REPROCESSING FOR CLIMATE OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM THE ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS, 2011
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ARC v1.1 Notes on versioning text file
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ARC v1.0 Briefing Document
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ARC v1.1 Filename and Data Description
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- series Series
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- ff8a7f27b827c108dd9756adffaaa942 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:26:57
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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