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NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily Sea Surface Temperature Analysis

Two new high resolution sea surface temperature (SST) analysis products have been developed by NOAA NCDC using optimum interpolation (OI). The analyses have a spatial grid resolution of 0.25 degrees and temporal resolution of 1 day. One product uses Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) infrared satellite SST data. The other uses AVHRR and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) on the NASA Earth Observing System satellite SST data. Both products also use in situ data from ships and buoys and include a large-scale adjustment of satellite biases with respect to the in situ data. Two products are needed because there is an increase in signal variance when AMSR became available in June 2002 due to its near all-weather coverage.


PERIODS: 1985-01-04 00:00 +0000 to 2008-09-30 00:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)
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UPDATES: Monthly (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Sea Ice ConcentrationSea Surface Temperature
LEVELS: See the detailed metadata for level information
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.875S Northernmost=89.875N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
RELATED SITES: NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
PUBLICATIONS: Reynolds, R.W., T.M. Smith, C. Liu, D.B. Chelton, K.S. Casey and M.G. Schlax, 2007: Daily High-resolution Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature. J. of Climate, 20, 5473-5496 (DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1824.1).

VOLUME: 20.47 GBytes (Entire dataset)
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FORMATS: netCDF
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Zaihua Ji (303-497-1819) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
RELATED DATASETS: ds277.0 - NCEP Version 2.0 OI Global SST and NCDC Version 3.0 Extended Reconstructed SST Analyses

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