NOAA NCDC ERSST version4 sst: Extended reconstructed sea surface temperature data

Extended reconstructed sea surface temperature from NOAA NCDC ERSST version4: In situ data: ICOADS2.5 before 2007, NCEP in situ data from 2008 to present. Ice data: HadISST ice before 2015 and NCEP ice after 2015..

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time)
grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1854) to (Feb 2020) by 1.0 N= 1994 pts :grid
longitude (longitude)
grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2W) by 2.0 N= 180 pts :grid
latitude (latitude)
grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (88S) to (88N) by 2.0 N= 89 pts :grid
zlev
grid: /zlev (meters) ordered [ (0.0)] :grid

Other Info

datatype
realarraytype
iridl:hasSemantics
iridl:SeaSurfaceTemperature
missing_value
-999.0
pointwidth
1.0
standard_name
sea_surface_temperature
units
Celsius_scale
valid_max
45.0
valid_min
-3.0
standard units*
degree_Kelvin above 273.15

References

Boyin Huang, Viva F. Banzon, Eric Freeman, Jay Lawrimore, Wei Liu, Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas M. Smith, Peter W. Thorne, Scott D. Woodruff, and Huai-Min Zhang, 2015: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons. J. Climate, 28, 911–930. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00006.1

Wei Liu, Boyin Huang, Peter W. Thorne, Viva F. Banzon, Huai-Min Zhang, Eric Freeman, Jay Lawrimore, Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas M. Smith, and Scott D. Woodruff, 2015: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4): Part II. Parametric and Structural Uncertainty Estimations. J. Climate, 28, 931–951. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00007.1

Last updated: Tue, 26 May 2020 18:41:17 GMT

Data Views

TXYzlev
NOAA NCDC ERSST version4[ ]
[ zlev | T]SM
[ X Y zlev | T]MMMM