Independent Variables (Grids)

lat (projection_y_coordinate)

grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (89.875S) to (89.875N) by 0.25 N= 720 pts :grid

lon (projection_x_coordinate)

grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0.125E) to (0.125W) by 0.25 N= 1440 pts :grid

Time (time)

grid: /T (days since 1978-01-01 12:00:00) ordered (20 Sep 1981) to (13 Apr 2020) by 1.0 N= 14086 pts :grid

zlev

grid: /zlev (meters) ordered [ (0.0)] :grid

Other Info

datatype

shortarraytype

iridl:hasSemantics

iridl:SeaSurfaceTemperature

missing_value

-999

pointwidth

1.0

scale_factor

0.01

units

Celsius_scale

valid_max

4500

valid_min

-300

standard units*

degree_Kelvin above 273.15

References

Cavalieri D., C. Parkinson, P. Gloerson, and H.J. Zwally. 1997, updated 2005. Sea ice concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I passive microwave data, June to September 2001. Boulder, CO, USA.

Grumbine, R. W., 1996: Automated passive microwave sea ice concentration analysis at NCEP, 13pp. Unpublished manuscript available from NCEP/NWS/NOAA, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD, 20746, USA.

May, D.A., M. M. Parmeter, D. S. Olszewski and B. D. McKenzie, 1998: Operational processing of satellite sea surface temperature retrievals at the Naval Oceanographic Office, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 79, 397-407.

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. Climate, 20, 5473-5496.

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