monthly sst sst Sea Surface Temperature from NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2: SST fields updated from version 1 with more COADS data, new sea-ice to SST conversion algorithm, and 1971-2000 climatology.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1984) to (Dec 2003) by 1.0 N= 240 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1.0 N= 180 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 4
- CE
- null
- colorscalename
- sstcolorscale
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- pointwidth
- 1.0
- standard_name
- sea_surface_temperature
- units
- degree_Celsius
- standard units*
- degree_Kelvin
- history
- Averaged over T2[1984, 2003]
References
Reynolds, R.W., N.A. Rayner, T.M. Smith, D.C. Stokes, and W. Wang, 2002: An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate. J. Climate, 15, 1609-1625.
Last updated: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:04:31 GMT